Bronx: Garbage Takes the Train. BS?

Bronx: Garbage Takes the Train

from the NYTimes
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Published: August 15, 2007

Garbage is now being shipped out of the Bronx entirely by rail instead of by trucks, part of a city plan to reduce the number of trucks traveling on the streets, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday. The Bronx is the second borough to use trains to ship the garbage; Staten Island began shipping household waste in May after the city reactivated the Staten Island Railroad. The Bronx ships about 2,100 tons of garbage each day for disposal outside the city, the mayor said.

Note:

What this means is that all of the garbage being shipped out of the Bronx, which includes trash from Queens and Manhattan currently, is coming through Community Board #1 of the South, South Bronx. The Mott Haven and Port Morris neighborhoods specifically.

It comes into our neighborhoods via diesel trucks and to the Waste Management facility on the Harlem River Rail Yards. Although the Harlem River Rail Yards are owned by the NYS Dept of Transportation, and leased to Galesi Group, we enjoy no public benefit whatsoever. Still at this time there is no official public access, though it is 96 acres of waterfront property. See our efforts to create these kinds of amenities at:

http://www.friendsofbrookpark.org/waterfront.html

Email us to get involved in environmental justice efforts!

The images are of the doubled up lines of idling trucks blocking the Third Avenue Bridge at Bruckner Boulevard at the entrance to the Port Morris facility. note the police breaking through the lines to get traffic to flow and the worker with a bag of food he went to get while is idling truck was waiting to enter the facility.

See a follow-up article at:

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