Sanchez questions on Intro 367: carter interest in city transfer stations
Sanchez asks whether DSNY has received requests from carters to use marine or rail transfer stations. Anderson says no direct requests but some carters indicated interest during the RFP process, particularly for Upper Manhattan zones. Sanchez also confirms there is only one city-owned rail transfer station, on Staten Island.
And speaking about transfer stations, we're going to turn over to Intro 367.
Has the department received requests from carters to use the department's marine transfer stations or rail transfer stations?
If so, which carters have made this request and which facilities were they interested in?
We haven't received requests, but we did when we did the RFP part two for the commercial waste zone awards, we did ask carters to indicate if they would be interested in using our transfer stations.
Some of them did indicate interest, particularly those that will eventually service the Upper East Side zone.
I think there were some of those and some of the other zones in Upper Manhattan.
So certainly once we have completed implementation, we'll reach out to those.
And how many city-owned or operated rail transfer stations are there in New York City?
Just one.
Just one.
Staten Island, which is not currently permitted for commercial waste, so we'd have to do a permanent modification.
Okay, cool.