I am as human as the next person and I’ve got a pet peeve: Dirty Medians. I hate dirty medians. I am referring to medians in streets. And the “dirt” in this case is our eternal human nemesis: The Weed.
Here’s what I’m talking about. This is a dirty median that I drove by yesterday in a neighboring community:
Now here’s a “clean” median that I drove by today in Eden Prairie:
Again, a dirty median in another community:
And, one more time, a clean median from Eden Prairie:
I think the reason it bugs me to have weeds growing in the street medians is that I think it makes the community look unkempt and ugly. It makes it look like we don’t care. I think that our Street Maintenance workers do a pretty good job of keeping our street and highway medians attractive and free from weeds. We make an effort to do it every year. I think it’s starting to pay off.
We’re not perfect. I’ve seen a weed or two in our medians, but most of them look pretty clean. I like it that way. I hope that our citizens do too.
