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0.2% of NYC's parking spaces could disappear. Time to panic!

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 38 minutes ago

This is a better use of space tbh

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 1 points 6 minutes ago

Improving the quality of rubbish on their streets.

Waste management has been the most important feature of cities since, i dunno, maybe the Romans, probably way before.

(Glaring at what Athens has become.)

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 11 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Not that I wanna save the parking spaces or anything, fuck em, but why aren't they doing underground garbage bins?

[–] homes@piefed.world 14 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

There’s already lots of stuff directly underneath the street in New York City, due to 400 years of bad planning

Pipes, wires, sewer, subways… The list really does go on. If you go directly under any random street in New York, you’re gonna hit something pretty quickly.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 2 points 2 hours ago

MTA said, 'no 😶'. Probably.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If only there were transportation options that didn't require parking spaces in New York City...

[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

These could also become bus lanes or bike lanes, which are in pretty high demand nowadays

[–] inari@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Honestly an upgrade

[–] homes@piefed.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

OK, this was really shortsighted of the Adams administration when they started requiring trash bins. They should’ve required that they be kept near the buildings where they already were collecting trash and they should have started rolling out a wheelie bin program for trash bins to be distributed throughout the city over the next couple of years from when the requirement began.

But administrations shifted and the cost burden didn’t want to get picked up by the new administration… The whole program was handled very poorly, and this is what we get.

This is yet another opportunity for Mamdani to step up and do something good, but the solution isn’t very clear cut at all, and no matter what he comes up with, some group of people is gonna be upset by it. This is a real mess.