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 specialp on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:55PM (#34252415)

The Netherlands has absolutely nowhere approaching the density of NYC. Even Queens has a density twice that of Amsterdam, and Manhattan 7x. If you see NYC on garbage days the streets are lined with mountains of bags. Each corner would have to have a virtual mine shaft to hold 1000s of bags of garbage.

Also contrary to movies, Manhattan has almost no alley ways either. There's no space for anything. Even when it snows in many areas they have to take the snow and dump it in the East River.

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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by chimeracoder on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:01PM (#34252505)

> If you see NYC on garbage days the streets are lined with mountains of bags. Each corner would have to have a virtual mine shaft to hold 1000s of bags of garbage.

Or, you know, a commercial-sized dumpster.

The trash is already taking up space on the sidewalk. Putting a dumpster to contain it would save space, by keeping it contained.

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Re:New York EV Garbage Trucks can only snow plow for 4 hours... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @08:03PM (#34254446)

> The trash is already taking up space on the sidewalk. Putting a dumpster to contain it would save space, by keeping it contained

It is always fun to see people resort to completely illogical arguments to defend the current habits and rat-feeding status quo.

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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 (#34254460)

> The Netherlands has absolutely nowhere approaching the density of NYC.

We were talking about the row houses, right?

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