The ultimate end for that sliver of two-thirds acre of Gansevoort park is underwater the way things are going now.

There needs to be a massive public education program to explain the scale and urgency of the climate change crisis; especially to our leaders.

… to create a high level of cohesion among everyone and sense of purpose.

The alternatives have not been vetted well enough and that is what Silver knows and that’s why he is holding this up. See the Times piece today. It is clear, and if you’ve attended the numerous community board and other meetings around this, that the Mayor doesn’t want to hear alternatives. He is obstinate and wants it done his way. Much to his peril (see the West Side Stadium or Olympics bid.)

We all talk about sharing the load and such. Well, how about we take some of the tunnel traffic on 7th Avenue and shove it into the Bronx? How about we move the MeatPacking mayhem and put that in Staten Island? Or could we share the amount of tourists that encircle and entangle the Village nightly? Or maybe we could put the Westside Highway in Central Park!

The entire city has things that other neighborhoods have to endure for the benefit of the rest of the city (for instance, The Village contributes many more tax dollars for film permits, than most areas of the city). I’m not saying that we shouldn’t keep trash transmission as local as possible, but why is it so important to alter a much fought for piece of legislation when there are not one, but several alternatives that obviously have not been properly thought through because of the mayor’s foot stomping. It’s odd that TA tends to fight for cyclist rights, but on this issue has come down on the wrong side for pedestrians and cyclists. It IS about reducing truck traffic in one area, but is increases it in another area which was suppose to have a decrease.

But you are forgetting. Shelly Silver does not care about the Bronx. He only cares about 107 people in this world, and they all work in Albany as Democratic assemblymembers. Everyone else just revolves in orbit around him.

I guess she crawled back into the woodwork with Ben Green

Te money allocated for the Manhattan transfer stations in a separate, interest bearing account. Specifications for those transfer stations should be published. If the transfer stations in the other boroughs have cost over-runs, the amount in the Manhattan transfer station account should be increased by the same amount.

The city should then announce that as soon as the state turns over to the city operating Manhattan transfer stations consistent with the specifications, they will be used. The state could choose either site, or buy another.

Meanwhile, as soon as the outer-borough transfer stations are finished, some of the investment income on the Manhattan fund should be used to send an annual letter to the people of the city.

The letter would state that garbage from Manhattan continues to be shipped by truck through neighborhoods in the other boroughs consistent with the values of the Democratic party and liberalism as they exist in the City of New York in general, and the city’s representatives in the state legislature in particular.

Despite having to cross over the driveways of two of these garbage facilities every day (59th St also), I am in favor of them because it is absolutely illogical and discriminatory to foist Manhattan’s trash and garbage trucks on the residents of other boroughs. Also, the fact that Gansevoort will be servicing recyclable items instead of normal trash should remove the pest and smell issues from the litany of excuses the few opponents to this plan continually wail about. I do hope that the trucks being used to cart the recycling do get converted over to some form of biodiesel/hybrid technology sooner rather than later. But the fact that total Vehicle Miles Traveled will be cut by this siting option is a good start. Hopefully Silver will move this plan through today at last.

Why would anyone want a garbage dump in a park?
A park born from the defeat of Westway?
The alternative further north – at the towing pound – is welcomed by the community board there
Only Bloomberg and his girlfriend are calling it a red herring.

The 1997 law clearly states NO Garbage Dump on Gansevoort. You don’t like it buddy, change the law instead of writing lies on this blog.

We fought to kill Westway, get a green park along the Hudson, and think we are going to let this garbage dump go unchallenged.

We LOVE Shelly Silver. That is why his constituents – like me – vote for him year after year. He delivers. He killed the West Side Stadium. He will kill this stupid scheme.

Go Shelly!

The HRPA amendment is exactly what the vote is about and that’s clear from the links. And the so-called alternatives are red herrings that have been debunked as operationally impossible, prohibitively expensive or both.

Options were thoroughly studied and moving on this is long overdue.

It’s interesting that this blog, which often is going on and on about the traffic crossing the bike lanes on the westside, makes no mention of the fact that keeping this site there endangers bicyclists and pedestrians (a few have been killed in this area remember??) and was one of the key reasons it was to be decommissioned in the first place. I know that blogs are just opinionated tripe often times, but this posting seems to be some call-to-action that is seriously lopsided.

The mayor’s plan reduces the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in conjunction with trash movement. This may inconvenience some recreational cyclists in selected locations, but it achieves the overall greatest good for the greatest number.

I ride my bike and stroll through my neighborhood in the South Bronx every day, but seldom use the greenway, so there.

Can’t tell you the last time I rode my bike or took a leisurely stroll in the South Bronx.