New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours not 12 thats needed

Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by simmonmt on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:43PM (#34252215)

By row house do you mean something like this? https://goo.gl/maps/XTDwyAZy6GoqPRXt7

That's 4-5 stories of ~4 apartments per floor, times however many of those buildings fit in the 900ft/247m length of a block. There's nowhere near enough space on the corner (here's the corner: https://goo.gl/maps/aszPHqrQVGftcqTCA) to collect that much garbage, much less to do it three times a week.

Yes they could build big underground containers. Yes they could reduce the amount of garbage generated. But both are massive projects far beyond "why can't they just".

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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by brnt on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @08:04PM (#34254454)

> Yes they could build big underground containers.

Obviously. (What else?) Why would that be a massive project?

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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by dredmorbius on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:17AM (#34286820)

NYC's underground infrastructure, which is poorly mapped.

See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34253193>

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