Regular street sweeping to clear glass, debris, and gravel etc from streets and cycle paths. Combine with a campaign to reduce glass debris, add more bottle recycling points etc.
Problem (and responsibility) includes:
How about the dcc mandating that glass bottles can’t be sold near student areas?
(On reflection I am not sure how much that would help, since it is probably a very small number of people who deliberately break glass and they might make special trips to other parts of town to buy bottles for this purpose…!)
After speaking with people at Time to Shine 2026 - Otago University, I realise that this is definitely very much a thing - especially along the one-way going South towards the University.
I also learned that Campus Watch visit ‘trouble’ houses that do things like break bottles in the street in front of the properties - and that it might help if we kept a register of which specific areas are particularly problematic and shared this with them.
In order to be able to let the DCC know which the worst areas are, can people please reply here with their thoughts? Once we have a list, we can decide which are the worst offenders. I’ll start by nominating the area outside Dundas Corner Dairy on the one-way street heading south.
Clearly this is being explored (with all the challenges it would entail):
I’ve added this to the wiki at the top (which is a great place to collect / iterate a list like that).
Nice one, thanks Nathan. Hopefully we’ll get a few more glass hotspots nominated.