The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says its pilot program to reduce trash in the subway system is working and it will remove refuse cans at an additional 29 stations.
The agency began removing trash bins at 10 stations in September in an effort to reduce the subway rodent population and the amount of refuse pick-up in the stations.
It says it has resulted in a 66 percent reduction in the number of bags collected.
The expansion calls for the removal of refuse cans in 29 stations along the J and M lines.
The agency says riders have been part of the solution by taking their trash out with them.
(AP)
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Positively brilliant. Take out some of the cans, the situation improves. Take them all out, and nobody will throw any garbage on the floor or tracks.Not.
People totally will just carry their empty soda bottles and mcdonalds wrappers with them.
They surely won’t throw it on the tracks.
The vast majority of subway riders are decent people and will abide by the rules; the rest of you do not use the bins even when its next to you.