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Where I live, in Glasgow, the ward contains a neighbourhood of tenement blocks and right next to it, a garden suburb with villas. The bin collections for the garden suburb are weekly, and they take rubbish, recycling, garden and food waste and glass in separate bins. In the tenements, they take rubbish every 8 days and recycling every 16 days, and empty the street bins every two weeks. So there's rubbish everywhere a lot of the time. The only reasonable conclusion is that the councillors don't expect an electoral negative impact for failing to fix the situation.
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My house is on a nice-ish, but not especially posh victorian terraced street (Fishponds, if you know Bristol. We're not in Golf Club thread territory here). The street is pretty well maintained - it gets cleaned, the trees (it has trees) get cut back etc.
I walk my daughter to school through the 70s council estate round the corner and I notice quite a difference - the streets are clearly not maintained to anywhere near the degree ours is. I'm not talking about more litter being dropped or anything that would be down to the residents - this is street maintenance by the council contractors. Why would there be a difference in the upkeep if it's in the same constituency (Bristol East)?