MTA Considering No Trash Bins on Subway Platforms

[DET63]

The MTA says it already picks up more trash than it can handle.

New York City is considering a plan to remove all trash cans from some subway platforms -- a move many straphangers fear will make the stations even dirtier.

 

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been testing the plan at two stations for the last two weeks: The Main Street station on the No. 7 line in Flushing, Queens, and the Eighth Street N and R station in Manhattan.

 

The MTA says it's an experiment to see how much it can reduce the amount of refuse it picks up in the stations in a given month.

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[bobnabq]

The city could save even more money by getting rid of all lighting and just advising riders to bring a flashlight.

Just a thought. :giggle:

 

[DET63]

Where would people take their refuse if there was no place to dump it in stations? Would they take it out of the stations and drop it in trash cans elsewhere? Or would they simply drop it on the station platforms, perhaps on the tracks themselves, where it would present a potential fire and health hazard—among other things?

 

[Anderson]

Unless the MTA is also considering banning food from the subways, I don't think this is likely to have the desired effect. If anything, they're going to create grounds to contest any littering charges in the subway if somebody doesn't have anywhere to discard stuff that is at least reasonably available...and they're going to risk overflows in other bins (such as restrooms, if those still have bins).

 

[DET63]

BART bans food and drinks from platform areas (in fact, I believe anywhere inside the fare gates), but still has trash cans within stations.