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Why don't they have trash cans?
by Buge 10y ago
Why don't they have trash cans?
- detaro 10y agoTerrorism fears: they removed them after the 1995 gas attack on the subway, and never really added them back.
- ak39 10y agoIf this is true, I think this probably ranks high up there among the daftest of management responses for such a thing as "terrorism". If the world and its manual processes were programs and code, these stories would be front page of the The Daily WTF. Head hurts.
- Symbiote 10y agoWhy? Without the bins in London, there was close to zero "clutter" in underground stations. That makes it much easier to monitor for suspicious packages.
- mason55 10y agoIt turns out to be great for sanitation. People carry their garbage out with them and so you don't end up with overflow and rats. NYC is trialing it for the sanitation reasons alone
- 1_2__3 10y agoIt's hard not to read this as "the solution to a city government abdicating its responsibilities is to abdicate them even further. Problem solved." Like, why not just do away with all those pesky municipal services people pay taxes for? It'd be so much easier.
- PakG1 10y agoExcept there are real examples in the world where it really works. The data is compelling.
- CamperBob2 10y agoThe data is cherry-picked. Look at this very article for a counterpoint.
- 1_2__3 10y agoIt's hard not to read this as "the solution to a city government abdicating its responsibilities is to abdicate them even further. Problem solved." Like, why not just do away with all those pesky municipal services people pay taxes for? It'd be so much easier.
- dcw303 10y agoNot everywhere though. I was reading this comment as I got off the Yamanote line at Shinagawa and literally stared straight at trash bins. They do have see through plastic panels and see through plastic bags, for the reason you stated.
- ekianjo 10y agoThey only have trash bins at train stations because people drink and eat on the train. In the city there is nothing elsewhere.
- T0T0R0 10y agoUhhh... so like, what about that whole thing where, like, someone could simply disguise a deadly device as a big old pile of garbage? Am I the first person to have that idea?
- happyslobro 10y agoI think I see a way to get the trash cleaned up real quick. Burner phones are cheap there, right?
- raverbashing 10y agoThe UK also has terrorism concerns, originating from the IRA days. But they didn't abolish trash cans (or better, they replaced them with a metal ring and the bag stays visible)
- Symbiote 10y agoThey did abolish rubbish bins for many years. It's only about 5 years ago that the metal ring type was introduced http://londonist.com/2011/06/bins-are-back-on-the-underground http://londonist.com/2011/06/bins-are-back-on-the-undergroun...