MTA sees increase in garbage at subway stations, growing ridership could be the reason

More riders. More trash. There’s more litter in subway stations and that may be because more people are using the system, an spokesman said Monday. But some riders blamed the increase in filth on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for removing trash cans at some stations as part of a pilot program to clean up the system. “Since they took the garbage cans away, people just throw garbage on the platform or the tracks,” said Quomethia Knox, 45, a legal assistant from the Bronx. She said conditions worsened at her home station at 238th St. in the Bronx on the line, one of the stations in the program.

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