The new city bulky-item pickup process being tested in East Honolulu has the potential to be an expensive fiasco (“Bulky-item pickup by appointment only debuts for some of Oahu,” Star-Advertiser, April 30). It will cost a number of scavenger families their livelihood and turn neighbors against neighbors when they start piling on to a scheduled pickup; and never mind the dumping at parks and schools.

A neighborhood sweep is much more efficient than having a call-in reservation system requiring date-and-time appointments. If the city wants to experiment, restrict the reservation system to large items such as refrigerators, washer-dryers, ovens and beds, which require different teams than normal items.

Please, if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it! Just go ahead and get the revenue increases you want through property taxes.

Bob Stengle

Aina Haina

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