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Marlsfarp t1_irxeq2w wrote

Reply to comment by k1lk1 in Stumped New Yorkers Wait Years to Get Trees Planted — But You Can Pay $1,800 to Cut the Line - THE CITY by space_______kat

>The average wait time for a request to be completed went from 342 days in 2017 to 909 days in 2019 — the last year that the department even tracked the progress of 311 requests.

Sounds like it's a recent problem, not just "the city always sucks lol."

I myself had a tree request fulfilled within a couple months, but that was like ten years ago.

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k1lk1 t1_irxh0wz wrote

That's the whole point. These services are never funded sustainably, their service levels come and go.

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