Council Approves Bloomberg's Trash Plan
Thursday, July 20, 2006
New York, NY –
The City Council has approved Mayor Bloomberg's 20-year garbage plan that shifts the export of trash away from trucks to less polluting trains and barges. The vote was 44 to 5. The plan still includes its most controversial elements: the opening of two garbage transfer stations and a recycling facility all in Manhattan.
REPORTER: One of those garbage stations would be on East 91st Street in Councilmember Jessica Lapin's district. She voted against the plan, saying it isn't realistic or honest.
LAPIN: there are significant legal and legislative challenges facing all three of the sites in Manhattan -- Gansevoort, 59th street and 91st Street. I don't believe that all three of them are going to come on line.
REPORTER: Under the plan the city has three years to secure Gansevoort and West 59th or it must come back to the Council with alternative sites. But Mayor Bloomberg says he believes the current plan will succeed.
BLOOMBERG: The time for discussion is over. we've taken a vote, and this is what democracy is all about, and this is what we're going to do.
REPORTER: The plan now goes to the *state* for approval. The four city-owned garbage transfer stations are expected to open...in three years.
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