Dallas planned to kick alley trash service to the curb. Thousands of residents pushed back

When Dallas resident Bradley Williams lived in the Briarwood neighborhood, his trash bins drove him nuts.

Because he didn't have a front driveway, he kept the bins jammed by the side of his house until it was time to wheel them out over rocks to the curb. He sometimes struggled to roll them out in the pouring rain — and to keep pests at bay.

So when Williams and his wife found a new home in the Midway Hollow neighborhood, which was built with an alleyway system, he loved knowing trash would stay behind the house — out of sight, out of mind.

"That was a reason, one of the reasons, we bought that house," Williams said. "And then I come to find out, after being there less than a year, that they're planning on taking that away."

Unbeknownst to Williams, the city of Dallas had planned to ph