Mayor Rahm Emanuel celebrated the end of Chicago’s traditional ward-based, alderman-controlled garbage collection routes Thursday, even though the money he now says the city will save with the switch to a grid system is well short of his earlier estimates.
The mayor estimated the city will save $18 million in yearly reduced trash pick-up costs by abandoning the often byzantine boundaries of Chicago’s 50 wards in favor of geographically concise paths for garbage trucks. The savings will be used to pay for Emanuel’s plan to expand recycling citywide, so the money will not reduce city spending.
That’s less than one-third of the $60 million he first predicted would be saved annually when he initially brought up the grid idea as a mayoral candidate. The mayor’s office did not offer an explanation Thursday.
The switch hasn’t been without hiccups.
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