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- jlee2081, on 04/16/2008, -2/+38I hope all that urine build up doesn't kill the fish
- KISSOLOGY, on 02/16/2009, -1/+21This is why you shouldn't fall asleep on the subway.
- osabek, on 04/16/2008, -1/+17New York City has been doing this for years.... it only makes sense, the nooks and crannies of a subway car provide a perfect environment for growing coral reefs.
- bloodomen13, on 04/16/2008, -1/+10Cool... I can't wait to see what fish graffiti looks like
- redscofield, on 04/16/2008, -4/+12"So far, 666 subway cars have already made their way to the ocean floor" - Saaaaatan?! (in my best Church Lady voice)
(sigh) oh, Dana Carvey... remember when I thought you were funny? - killbert24, on 04/16/2008, -2/+9Recycling at its best.
- heypetray, on 04/16/2008, -1/+8Wow. About 3 weeks ago a family friend was telling me about how her cousin was doing this kind of thing. Pretty cool, so long as it works.
There's just something funny about a site named "Treehugger" promoting the dumping of city 'waste' into the ocean, regardless of the cause. - feverjunk, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6http://digg.com/environment/We_Dump_Old_Subway_Car ...
- Bukowsky, on 04/16/2008, -2/+7Sounds like a good idea to me. They either rot in a junk yard, slowly getting stripped of their parts. Or they get dropped into the ocean, so that the fish have an (artificial) place to live.
- Alex2, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5Saw this on discovery tv before. They actually spend money to degrease the cars before dumping so you don't have chemicals and oils killing the environment. Recycling is actually cheaper.
- themastersb, on 04/16/2008, -1/+6Why does the submitter of the article sound so surprised about this in the title? I mean he/she did just see it on the Digg front page a couple days ago.
- ejan, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3He's just recycling the article.
- trisquithere, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3Did they not see how bad of the whole rubber tire reefs turned out?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-17-flo ... - 22magnum, on 04/16/2008, -3/+6suxmonkey submitting a dupe! this never happens....
/sarcasm
http://digg.com/environment/We_Dump_Old_Subway_Car ...
http://digg.com/environment/1600_old_NY_subway_car ... - Goodbyeworld, on 04/16/2008, -3/+5Oh, yeah, this worked well last time.
http://www.nova.edu/ocean/tire_reef_washpost.html - DucoNihilum, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2Then perhaps digg should just consist of a single news story until it's been proven the ENTIRE INTERNET knows about it?
- OnShakedown, on 04/16/2008, -2/+4where i'm from people do this w/ old christmas trees to create new fish habitats. cool seeing it done on such a large scale!
- manicleek, on 04/16/2008, -1/+3a couple of days ago? I saw something about this a couple of years ago on a discovery channel program about NYC Subway
- RandoTheKing, on 04/16/2008, -3/+5More like NYC's piss poor excuse for getting rid of junk.
- pamela12345, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2It may not be cutting edge but I'm sure treehugger's article was news to some people.
- Balanced, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2Sometimes you have to actually learn from a mistake, identify what went wrong, and try again, instead of just going on to some new scheme.
- DucoNihilum, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2Do you think any fish will take up several seats on a full train, then piss themselves if you ask them to move?
- ross., on 04/16/2008, -0/+2Because fish love living in rotten pine trees.
- frieddonuts, on 04/16/2008, -2/+3Subway cars won't roll around though...so even if they're put down there they'd stay stable and not migrate to damage other reefs like tires do.
- triskele, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1About 10 years or so they dumped a few off the coast of Southern Long Island along with military vehicles, and they're pretty frequent stops for local dive boats. Yes, it works and I applaud the recycling "program", but it's hardly news.
- DucoNihilum, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1wat
- tont0r, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1The problem was that the tires just started being moved around, getting up against reefs or just washing up on shore. If a subway washes up on shore, Ill eat your hat.
- WocCixelsyd, on 04/16/2008, -1/+2Not only have they been doing this for years, there was an article about this same subject just a few days ago.
- pharmakon, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1agreed. this practice is not new. there are tanks off shore where i live.
- smithjls, on 04/16/2008, -1/+2Yup, it's old news.
But not for everyone. - carbonetc, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1If you go to Hawaii you can take a submarine tour and see some of the artificial reefs (mostly unintentional) there. Old planes and ships and such. Pearl Harbor must be a fishy metropolis now...
- theright, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1It's blog spam of a NY Times article (linked at the bottom as a "via" source) from last week. The post on treehugger contributes absolutely nothing to the NY Times article.
- AROZ, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Someone actually suggested using old tires for reefs. But we don't yet know the full extent to which all these things can pollute from corrosion. The last part was a joke, on how the mafia was connected with the garbage crisis in Naples because they were actually handling waste management in the city.
- RobotCitizen, on 04/16/2008, -1/+2Can I use this excuse to dump my garbage in the ocean too?
- Rikkochet, on 04/16/2008, -1/+2Nah, they dump stripped-down, decommissioned airliners and ships into the Pacific all the time. It works like a damn and they actually strategically dump them now so that they're within range of tourist sites so divers can check them out.
- Noods, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1They actually did this in Baltimore with an old bridge. I'm not sure I like the idea of dumping our waste in our waters. If you study nature at all you will find that a thing not native to an environment has negative effects on that environment....especially something like a train in an aquatic environment.
- laconica007, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1i didnt realize that NY has been doing this for a while? where? with a paucity of asbestos, this seems ingenious. i like the idea of nemo swimming in and out of an underwater L train.
- bjornski, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1I never saw it, so it's new to me.
- freshgrease, on 04/16/2008, -2/+3THIS IS OLDER THAN THE INTERNET. Seriously though, we've been making artificial reefs with NYC subway cars for a real long time. Why is this news?
- bjornski, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Yup
- bjornski, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1It costs too much to recycle! Let's throw it in the ocean!
- mojonandha, on 04/16/2008, -1/+2again? i get to digg.com at 1am and i have to take this *****? losing my sleep for what?
- inactive, on 04/16/2008, -2/+3stainless steel is not rubber.
- inactive, on 04/16/2008, -2/+2This is hilarious. Proof of how easily led Diggers are. A couple days ago this very same story was submitted and front paged. However, it was stupidly critical of the decision. Hence, most of the comments were also critical of this decision. (It was fun to see people act like they were a better judge on this issue than people who spent months researching it.)
Now we have this article which is describing the EXACT same thing. But the article is positive. And now, almost EVERY comment is positive. Only ONE person is calling this a bad idea. - troycott, on 04/16/2008, -2/+2SUBway or SUBmarine???
- phreak79, on 04/16/2008, -1/+1This is old news. From October of last year http://www.theenvironmentsite.org/forum/waste-recy ...
- OnShakedown, on 04/16/2008, -0/+0have you ever seen the bottom of a lake? some were previously forests, so that's all that is down there. i guess it'd depend on the area and type of lake as to whether you'd want to do that. it matches the natural lakebed where i'm from.
- feverjunk, on 04/16/2008, -3/+3http://digg.com/environment/We_Dump_Old_Subway_Car ...
Thats what your referring to right? - Balanced, on 04/16/2008, -1/+1I don't think many coral reefs are found in the river.
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