Old cities with alleys had streets or walkways made into alleys. Newer cities were designed to have alleys.
New York(Manhattan) had their city planning designed to maximize realestate starting in 1811. Lower Manhattan does have alleys and there are some here and there.
The trash on the street is because there are no bins. There are no bins because the cars pack the streets and prevent access and there are no alleys. There are other reasons there are no bins like terrorism, vandalism, and cost. So they instead just toss bags on the street and that is collected twice a week.
There was a vacuum trash removal system tried out on Roosevelt Island since '75. All the trash gets sucked to a central collection from holding areas in the buildings. It goes get clogged, as you would imagine, but it is a better system than the truck emissions and sidewalk trash. They don’t implement it widely because the underground of Manhattan is a noodle bowl of infrastructure that pretty much can’t accommodate the 24"+ diameter pipes.
I’m not a big city person but if I were would want a vacuum trash disposal service, it just makes so much more sense that individual collections.
Old cities with alleys had streets or walkways made into alleys. Newer cities were designed to have alleys.
New York(Manhattan) had their city planning designed to maximize realestate starting in 1811. Lower Manhattan does have alleys and there are some here and there.
The trash on the street is because there are no bins. There are no bins because the cars pack the streets and prevent access and there are no alleys. There are other reasons there are no bins like terrorism, vandalism, and cost. So they instead just toss bags on the street and that is collected twice a week.
There was a vacuum trash removal system tried out on Roosevelt Island since '75. All the trash gets sucked to a central collection from holding areas in the buildings. It goes get clogged, as you would imagine, but it is a better system than the truck emissions and sidewalk trash. They don’t implement it widely because the underground of Manhattan is a noodle bowl of infrastructure that pretty much can’t accommodate the 24"+ diameter pipes.
I’m not a big city person but if I were would want a vacuum trash disposal service, it just makes so much more sense that individual collections.