The Transfer Station Plan

by turfgrrl

July 11th, 2008 · 19 Comments

Tags: Norwalk

19 Responses so far ↓ “The Transfer Station Plan”

• 1 old timer // Jul 11, 2008 at 10:14 am

  Why are there no numbers ? How much will the ten year lease cost the City ? They must have numbers, they claim to know the difference in costs between the preferred plan and the next best alternative.

• 2 nwlknative // Jul 11, 2008 at 11:09 am

  I love the traffic figures for Meadow Street. It doesn’t sound bad - only three more trucks per hour. Well, that relates to six truck trips if they are going in and out, times 8 hours a day or 48 more truck trips per day passing the residences. Now if I lived on Meadow Street or the surrounding areas where these trucks are traveling, I would be concerned. Traffic engineers can always work the numbers so they don’t seem so ominous, but, in reality, they never quite get it right.

• 3 Anonymous // Jul 11, 2008 at 11:59 am

  Is it traffic flow around the new development we are only concerned about in the move to meadow st?

  Give us a link to a city web site we can trust,then maybe we can have some serious conversation.

  Nothing will bring Norwalk into the 21st century.

  its more like 8 large trucks an hour leaving the transfer station as smaller vehicles come in and drop off.Hal had already said his plans were to hurt the other businesses from expanding in Norwalk.

  Rowyaton,there goes your no truck thru move,join the 21st century and put up with them like the rest of us.

  this ought to be good anyone thinking about the people who live near Meadow st?

  Why want mopre control on Meadow st,Lajoies runs the show and the city can’t do anything about it until we start replacing public oficials who for years have said they know whats good for Norwalk,why trust them now?

• 4 gabage in garbage out // Jul 15, 2008 at 10:40 pm

  Alas, now you wave the “green” flag to pitch the
  Meadow Street deal, How sad.
  So DPW is saying they have not been recycling very well for the last 20 years ? They must be proud.
  Since most households have recycling pickup at their homes , How are changes at the transfer station going to Improve Recycling ??
  Does every resident drive to Cresent st. to drop off these “additional materials” ? thats a lot of gas and extra traffic. this is better ?
  EXACTLY HOW ARE TWO TRANSFER STATIONS CHEAPER TO
  RUN THAN ONE ???
  How is driving 3 states and landfilling your garbage better for the environment ?
  I have a bridge for sale , interested ?

• 5 Anonymous // Jul 16, 2008 at 10:50 am

  They should move everything to Meadow Street and rezone that entire area to industrial/commercial, including Woodward Ave. There is nothing but crime there now anyway.

• 6 Anonymous // Jul 16, 2008 at 2:09 pm

  #4 where were you when the silvermine bridge needed replacing?

  It won’t fly Rowyaton has way too much to lose,they can’t stop the through trucks and that is what you will have plain and simple.

• 7 older timer D.P.W. // Jul 16, 2008 at 8:43 pm

  Can anyone tell the public How much does
  City Carting pays The City Of Norwalk
  to dump at transfer on Crescent St is it
  $83.00 dollars a ton like the other haulers
  you can not get an answer from publics works
  Why is mr Alvord telling
  the public there are no
  oil and water separate systems at the station
  when there two systems.If the transfer station
  true tonnage was credited to norwalk would not
  pay fines to c.r.r.a because city cartings tonnage
  is not credit to Norwalk
  why is Norwalk getting permits for City Carting
  to run Meadow St is it true homeowners with pickup truck will start no longer will there be three tons dumped free Ask L Bardin

• 8 Anonymous // Jul 16, 2008 at 10:16 pm

  according to Hal the scale at cresent st rarely works whats up with that sh@T? This came from his own mouth in the meeting minutes that was recorded.

• 9 Anonymous // Jul 17, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  you would think after all this talk certain facts would be available to the public on this why hasn’t it become public? I can’t trust the people in charge the very same people who made the development deals.

  So who is taking their money and running? I’d like to see that list.

• 10 AnonymousToo // Jul 17, 2008 at 3:52 pm

  Norwalk recycling truck kills resident at Hedge Drive home By Jon Lucas
  Assistant City Editor

  Article Launched: 07/17/2008 03:09:54 PM EDT

  NORWALK - A Hedge Drive resident was struck and killed by a city carting recycling truck shortly after 2:30 p.m Thursday.
  The woman has not yet been identified and the cause of the accident is under investigation.

  Hedge Drive is off Walter Avenue, near Westport and East avenues.

• 11 Anonymous // Jul 17, 2008 at 6:21 pm

  in defense of the driver it was thought she was trying to give the driver a tip I guess if your 92 you would think of others and what they do for a living.Damm shame she was left in the street for longer than she should of been why was that?

  Can’t blame the sargent or the officers there but whos job was it to notify the ME?

  simply disgusting how things work in Norwalk.

  I live in the area the state police didn’t get there until 5:30 I hope she didn’t stay in the street that long.

• 12 Watchdog // Jul 18, 2008 at 7:39 am

  What a shocking piece of news this morning! My heartfelt condolences to the family.

• 13 TILII // Jul 18, 2008 at 7:48 am

  This was a tragedy. Making it to 93 you should be allowed to die in your bed while sleeping. There are nothing but losers in this tragedy. It is a case of “When bad things happen to good people,” and I am considering the woman and the driver both good people. He will live with this for the rest of his life.

• 14 Anonymous // Jul 18, 2008 at 10:45 am

  8 accidents in Norwalk in 7 days all were Norwalk employees and Norwalk contractors maybe another thought on safety and slowing the city down before it happens again would show the family Norwalk cares.4 accidents in one day was the record didn’t make the news but just the same they transpired according to police officers why not trust those facts.

  I persoanlly have seen the recycle truck drive by without a driver he jumps out and lets the truck coast to a stop while he is running to the blue box.Thats safe? Of course its been like that for five years.

  Yes my thoughts and prayers to the family now what about safety and the accidents that were reported where personal injury was involved in the other accidents this last week?

• 15 Anonymous // Jul 18, 2008 at 10:51 am

  #14-Speed does not cause the majority of accidents- It is Driver inattention, selfishness, and abject stupidity.

• 16 Anonymous // Jul 18, 2008 at 11:15 am

  wow describes some of Norwalks employees or their contractors.But in some of these cases it was cruisers responding to calls and LAZ employee driving a city car.Whats that tell you?

  I do agree with you#15 you did hit the nail on the head, you hit it out of the ballpark on the thought.

  The speed of the police dept has gotten out of hand 85 miles an hour on water st has no justification.

• 17 AnonymousToo // Jul 18, 2008 at 7:56 pm

  #16 how do you know that the police were doing 85 on Water St? or was that just a figurative example?

• 18 Ex Cop // Jul 20, 2008 at 10:56 am

  Were the 85mph driver’s eyes glazed ?
  Had he been eating doughnuts ?

  85 mph on Water St ? Never justified ?
  If you believe the estimated speed, it would be interesting to know the justification. A kid in anaphalactic shock in the car being rushed to the hospital would justify unusual speed, and there are calls, like heart attacks, that require the quickest possible response.
  If #16 was waiting for the police for some emergency in his family, whatever that police car was doing, wouldn’t be fast enough. Too bad the press doesn’t get routine stories about lives saved by fast police response.

• 19 Anonymous // Jul 20, 2008 at 12:35 pm

  Maybe that might explain the flat tire a day and the many accident reports the department is experiencing on its own cruisers each day.When your coverage is so this than that every call from a dog barking to the homeless shelter brings a response from the other side of the city you need to look at policy not semantics.

  When a cruiser is running heavy on the streets its shows up on the condition of the cruiser fleet.When there is almost a fight at shift change for cars that work and cars that work right it says a lot.Over coffee this morning it was said the condition of the fleet has become dangerous to the officers and public the union may jump in and notify the city clearly this is not something Rillings wants to bring to the table.

  I respect your posting Ex-cop but come over when I have the radar gun out I’ll show you an example or two.You already know how pressed the officers are to protect and serve the entire city and the broken cop car pile is getting larger in this heat.Lets be serious with the morale of some of our brother officers they would rather drive the car into the ground than nurse it and take a chance the damm thing wil give out on a heart attack or a kid choking.Yes scoop and screw when it comes to kids and elderly but for some of the regulars they see sometimes three times a day at the homeless shelter well you could be more careful responding.

  But then again only if you have been there you know the stack that is kept by the dispathers is getting larger and more frequent to a regular poster out here that may mean nothing but to others it may mean more cops and cruisers are needed soon.

  Too bad the press couldn’t get the info to print on car maintenence and how many tires we are going thru a day it might help the public understand our officers need help not.Ex cop you ever have to fight over a detail car as oppose to a patrol car that works right will all flash bars and engine that sounds like it will make the shift? talk to your brothers they have an earful to tell you.

  I’m pro officer not pro city read in between the lines the public has no idea where our dept stands on protection and the ability to respond simply ask the officers themselves it might even save yet another life if the taxpayer realizes its time to help our force out.What have we heard from Rillings on this?

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