Mayor Bloomberg is taking so long to complete his two-year, $240 million plan to remove garbage from the streets that it could take another seven years, a city official charged yesterday.
“This plan should be up and running in two years,” Councilman Mike McMahon (D-Staten Island), said at a hearing of the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management, which he chairs.
“From what I heard today, I’d be surprised if it’s up and running in the year 2010.”
In July 2002, Bloomberg announced a plan to rebuild eight stations that would compact more than 13,000 tons of residential trash a day.
Now Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said the project could take as long as 2007 to complete.