From the Daily News:
While residents in the Upper East Side and elsewhere protest waste transfer stations slated for their neighborhoods, locals in North Brooklyn and the South Bronx are clamoring for them to be built - so they can stop holding the bag for the city’s trash.
More than 60% of the city’s garbage goes through plants in the South Bronx and along Newtown Creek - but they were supposed to get relief from a landmark 2006 garbage plan that includes four new marine transfer stations that would take half the city’s trash.
Fierce opposition has met a planned station on E. 91st St. in the upper East Side, which has been held up by lawsuits and is slated to open in 2015. A station planned in Bath Beach is on the same schedule.
Facilities in Sunset Park and College Point are under construction, but the Queens station continues draw protests saying it could raise hazards at nearby LaGuardia Airport.
In the South Bronx, which has 13 stations, and the area around Newtown Creek, which has 19, residents complain that so many stations in one place means foul smells, pollution-spewing trucks clogging the streets and dust and debris blowing around.
Advocates are particularly rankled by the resistance from the Upper East Side. Manhattan produces 40% of the city’s trash, but currently has no waste stations.
5 comments:
The College Point garbage transfer station is for the birds. The NYC mayor is a bird brain!!! Flock him!
It's time to build a waste station in every neighborhood in Manhattan. It's only fair!
Someone needs to do a little fact checking before they just repeat the nonsense that politicians have been spewing over garbage. No Manhattan curbside garbage is transferred out of Brooklyn or Bronx. It is currently taken into NJ as is most of the commercial waste in Manhattan. But lets go double and triple the cost of sanitation because we have lots of money to waste in NYC. Just ask the teachers, FDNY and NYPD. There is a reason that the City institutes zoning. Transfer Stations are only permitted in the heaviest Industrial zoning. If you don't like it, don't live near it.
It's not just people who live near them that suffer from increased truck and rail traffic and the resultant pollution, noise and decreased quality of life. And quite frankly, I am sick of the stupid attitudes of bureaucrats and their defenders who think things look good on paper but don't have to deal with the consequences.
I am sick of the stupid attitudes of bureaucrats and their defenders who think things look good on paper but don't have to deal with the consequences.
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Yes Crappy true - and they do this because our local press and pols are their enablers.
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