cybercuzco's Journal: People Love Rats, but not the Rats Milk?

Some more reflections on NYC. Even though I realize that great strides have been made in the last few decades in cleaning up the city of New York, its still a dirty city. One of my friends who came withcommented that "after visting New York, the buildings here dont seem so big anymore" To which I added, "Or as Ghetto"
      New York has alot of people. If you dont live there or have never visited, you can understand abstractly that 10 million people live in the 5 bouroughs, but until you've been there and seen all these people all running around on their own tasks, you have no idea how many people live there. And that leads to problems. In DC, the metro is clean, theres no gum on the floor, the walls and floor are generally clean and theres no trash lying around. Thats because the DC Metro runs from 5AM to 1 AM weekdays, so theyve got a 4 hour window to clean up. The Subway runs 24 hours a day 7 days a week, except when it doesnt. So I can understand why things would tend to get a little messy. But the whole subway system needs to have a pressure washer taken to it. Simply hosing down the floors and walls would go a long way towards making the system nicer to travel in.
      I never saw any rats or cockroaches in the subway, so thats a start, but seriously, how can you have pride in something thats that dirty. And if you try to tell me that "well if they clean it, it will just get dirty again" Would you eat at a restaurant that had that attitude about its eating areas? About its bathrooms? About its dishes?. I hope that NYC gets the 2012 Olympics and uses some of that money to clean up the subway. Then again, the Olympics should be about sport, and not about urban renewal, but thats what its getting to. But I digress...
      In general i feel that this country is too messy, I see so many people every day littering, throwing cigarette butts out car windows, etc. Maybe people just dont care about keeping the country looking nice, oh well, im digressing again.
      Back to NYC. Id hate to see what the city would be like during a garbage strike, its bad enough as it is. They could probably build another island out of the garbage the throw out every day. Oh wait, I forgot about Staten Island ;-)