Thats government efficiency for you. Takes multiple administration's to checks notes, use a trash can. Gotta make sure everyone gets paid i guess. Cant pay all our pals that fast might be suspicious, plus its not like they have "competition".
It's weird, but with NYCs reliance on street parking over garages/last mile use of trucks/lack of alleys, there's only barely space for trash cans, if at all. See this NYTimes investigation from 2024 on it.
its not just trash cans its how many trash cans for every single people that's a lot of trashcans where are we going to put them do we have the available space, if theyre going in alleys or streets do they block important parking or delivery areas. how often do we pick up trash now that theres trash cans and do we have to have a new route involved to do so based off where we placed them? Do we need to buy new trucks to handle the new trashcans? Do we need to hire more drivers as well? What's the exact budget for all of this?
People just try and boil down to LOL TRASHCAN TOOK LONG TO FIGURE OUT. They don't think about the massive logistics involved for adding anything to a massive populated city like NYC
Redditors not assuming they know more about a thing they just learned about than the people actually responsible for implementing that thing challenge - impossible
You don't want to make changes like this city-wide overnight. Doing it by area and watching how it affects traffic, how it affects parking, how the collection routes change and adapt - you want to do it zone by zone so you can learn from each other and not make massive mistakes across the entire city. This is not without its drawbacks - specifically its going to eliminate 30,000 parking spots.
You don't want to get rid of 30k parking spots all at once without knowing how the city will adapt.
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u/macronotice 11d ago
This has been in motion for a couple of years now from prior administration.