No trash collection in two weeks! Fun!

The city is saying that sanitation workers are not required to pick up trash bags that are on top of snow, nor walk around snow to take bags off of sidewalks. It also can't be placed in the lane of travel. So what should we do with the 30 or so bags of trash in front of each building on our street? I told the woman at City Hall that I would be happy to lift the bags into the truck if they would at least send a truck, but she said there is no way to arrange this, and we would need to shovel the snow. I tried to explain to her just how many trashbags these are, since they've not come around in two weeks, and that it is a tiny residential street. She kept saying we would need to shovel the snow so the trash can be on the curb. I wonder if the city would come take care of it faster if the trash were in the lane of travel? Except I don't actually want to inconvenience residents like that. Good times.