On Thursday, the Union County Freeholders approved the barge-to-rail garbage transfer plan, which now goes before the state's Department of Environmental Protection.
In a unanimous vote, the Union County Board of Freeholders approved a proposed barge-to-rail garbage transfer station in Linden tonight despite objections from opponents who spoke at a public hearing here earlier in the evening.
Yes, I am both a speedboat and a speed train, and I will mix metaphors if I wish and bend language to my own reality like rails of garbage steel.
Then, in March 2009, New York City, which had closed the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, began a daily shipment to Middle Village of 10 to 12 rail cars of garbage from Bushwick.
That tolerance began to fade when New York and other localities began shipping garbage by rail to landfills in Virginia and elsewhere.
In Middlesex County, Kathy Crusco, whose Metuchen home overlooks one of the rail lines where the garbage train might run, is not worried about Linden's property values.
New York City now ships some of its garbage by rail to landfills as far away as Virginia and South Carolina, after Rudolph W. Giuliani closed the city's Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island when he was mayor.
These wages lead, in turn, to very high prices for all state services (e.g., law and order, licensing, utilities, and almost all basic networks (e.g., power, water and sewage, phone, garbage disposal, rail, sea transport, oil refineries, natural gas)).
Residents some of the New Jersey communities along the garbage-train rail path -- such as Metuchen, Woodbridge and Carteret in Middlesex Counties -- have indicated they may protest the plan.
The barge-to-rail plan of transporting garbage also has the support of some environmental organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, an environmental coalition.
All the same, the slender, ankle-high creek does mark a fatality: the South Bronx waterfront, which has been blocked and buried by rail yards, highways, caravans of garbage trucks and warehouses.
