Attempts by New York City to remove trash cans from subway stops in a
bid to reduce trash and rats have officially failed, local Metropolitan
Transportation Authority (MTA) officials admitted Wednesday. MTA ended the 6-year-long program after two separate audits found it only increased the amount of garbage in stations and caused more track fires. “It took the MTA five years, but we are gratified that it recognized
the need to end this controversial experiment that showed little to no
improvements in riders’ experience,” Thomas DiNapoli, New York’s State
Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, said in a statement.
“We’re encouraged the agency continues to address cleanliness in other
ways. Straphangers, who have just been burdened with another fare
increase, deserve cleaner stations that are free of rats.” DiNapoli’s office regularly attacked MTA over the plan to remove
trash cans. The MTA program ultimately removed trash cans at 39
different subway stations across the city, which was supposed to reduce
the amount of overflowing garbage and rats. MTA estimates that it removes about 40 tons of trash from the subway system each day...more
5 years, 2 audits. Not everything happens in a "New York minute" up there.
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