The MTA is really sorry about how trashy the subway has gotten of late and they promise they are going to do something about it. Really! The New York City Transit president Thomas Prendergast even went so far as to call the current situation "unacceptable." He also says the system is in the process of putting a new strategy in place. They've got plans, wheels are in motion, etc., etc.!
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Sorry About All That Subway Platform Trash!
Spotted On The 6 Train: Piles Of "Rat-Filled" Garbage
The Daily News has quite the juicy "exclusive" today with a story about MTA workers using an in-service subway train to transport piles of "rat-filled" garbage. You can't see any rats in this photo of trash on the 6 train, but the News headline says they're in there, and do you really want to root around and find out? Also unsettling is the color of the bags, which evokes those medical waste biohazard bags. An anonymous MTA worker tells the tabloid:
North Brooklyn Trash Takes The Train Out Of Town
Yesterday morning, Mayor Bloomberg and other officials announcing the start of a new garbage era in Brooklyn: The city will export thousands of tons of trash from North Brooklyn by rail instead of by road. Mayor Bloomberg pointed out removing trash by rail will eliminated 40 long haul tractor trailer trips each day (or 13,000 each year), “That’s not only going to help reduce congestion on the borough’s streets and highways, it also will reduce the City’s greenhouse gas emissions and improve the air we breathe - especially in communities that have long been unjustly saddled with handling other people’s waste.”
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