Manhattan has many great qualities, but trash isn’t one of them. Since the island has no space for alleys, trash is piled onto the streets for early-morning pickups by loud garbage trucks making their rounds. But there might be a better way: what if trash was moved around the city using pneumatic tubes? It might sound like a crazy idea, but liquid waste has long been transported out of the city in sewers, and water and natural gas are pumped in through tubes. Why not trash?
A new feasibility study by the University Transportation Research Center at the City University of New York hopes to answer just that question. In the report, the team considers two specific sites that are particularly well-suited to a pneumatic trash system: the High Line in Chelsea and the Second Avenue subway.
via The Verge
