{"id":7160,"date":"2024-11-12T11:39:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2024-11-12T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:39:49","slug":"nms-mechanical-road-sweeper-replaces-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/nms-mechanical-road-sweeper-replaces-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"NMS mechanical road-sweeper replaces humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0NMS recently decided to replace street cleaners in the CBD with mechanical road sweeper vehicles. That is a mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\">The lorries suck up rubbish and water on the road along a 2.5 metre strip. NMS argues that it will limit the risk to street sweepers during the Covid pandemic and reduce dust to the public. The sweepers will be &#8220;deployed elsewhere&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\">NMS is proud to join the ranks of &#8220;major cities&#8221; by mechanising street cleaning but conditions are different in rich countries where labour is costly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\">Here these road sweeping machines are putting human beings out of work. However humble their profession, street cleaners still receive a salary that helps to feed and house their families. What will they do now that their services are no longer required?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\">The lorries will probably be more expensive once repair and maintenance are factored in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 12pt\">So let&#8217;s keep human road sweepers in the Nairobi CBD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Source: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/opinion\/leader\/2021-02-11-let-humans-sweep-roads-in-nairobi\">The Star<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NMS recently decided to replace street cleaners in the CBD with mechanical road sweeper vehicles. That is a mistake. The lorries suck up rubbish and water on the road along a 2.5 metre strip. NMS argues that it will limit the risk to street sweepers during the Covid pandemic and reduce dust to the public&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1905],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-1Ru","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/NMS-mechanical-road-sweeper-replaces-humans.jpg?fit=1275%2C797&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}