Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) should clean up its act

The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) should clean up its act with respect to the trash pickup services that it performs on and around Castle Island. While out for our typical early morning walk my wife, 7 month old daughter and I had the very unpleasant, but not unusual, experience of finding ourselves in the trail of a large, odorous garbage truck leaving a steady stream of unsanitary garbage juice in its wake. The trouble was, we had no where to go as the garbage truck was driving directly on the sidewalk that surrounds the sugar bowl area, instead of on streets that run in parallel. It seems that driving on the sidewalks may make the trash pickup a bit easier and maybe slightly faster for the pickup crew at the expense of pedestians like us. This runs counter to the stated mission of the DCR and is a practice that should be immediately discontinued. Furthermore, we observed the same pickup crew leaving a significant amount of trash on the ground that easily could have been picked up. Some of this was refuse that the crew dropped during its handling of the barrels that it was emptying, but apparently deemed unnessessary for declaring a job (well?) done. From our standpoint, this looked like a crew going through the motions, with little consideration for public interests / pedestrians and similarly little pride in the quality of the job it was doing. I hope we see improvement in the future.