More Venice

Venice has no "driving" streets and no motorized vehicles on land. So, how do you do deliveries, trash pickup, etc for a bustling city? Everything is picked up and delivered by cart like the ones below in pic 1. Trash is set out before 8 am and guys come along with these handcarts and pick up all the bags. then they take their full carts to a barge-like boat and dump their load and go back for more until all of the day's trash is picked up. In the morning there are small bags of trash outside all residences and businesses. In a pretty short period thy all are taken to the barge and shipped out.





Pic 2 is FedEx and UPS afloat. All the daily deliveries are brought in on these delivery barges. Many businesses have access to the waterways. For those who do not have direct access, the packages are loaded onto handcarts and delivered. All sand and gravel for cement work, lumber, etc is delivered to the job site by boat. It really made me think about how they handle daily necessities that seemed very much complicated by the water-based infrastructure. They seem to take it in stride. I guess in a few hundred years you get it figured out. I saw barges pulled up to areas with men operating small backhoes from the boat, men mixing cement on boats, men dumping cement onto boats, etc. It was very interesting.


Many of the residences do not have electric or gas driers. The clothes go out on the line like the old days - except most residence are not on ground level so the lines stretch along a building like above or across the street like below.


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