To the editor:

Closing the transfer station will impact our most vulnerable residents, seniors and low-income families, in cost and convenience.

Many seniors make a combined trip to the transfer station when on other errands, such as going to the library, Clements’, medical appointments or the senior center. They are able to take small, light manageable amounts in inexpensive bags during good weather at their convenience in light traffic when feeling well.

The trash disposal costs will be much lower at the transfer station, where expensive bins are not required. This helps those with physical mobility problems, as the containers are impossible to move down long driveways, especially in the ice and snow. The transfer station also encourages desired maximum recycling among low-income users by allowing costs to be controlled on a personal level.

Additionally, without the transfer station, there will be no real control of competition and costs. With the transfer station gone for trash disposal (never to be opened again), trash-haulers will be able to raise prices as they wish.

It is against the will of the people in these difficult times to take away choice and force a more expensive and difficult method of trash disposal on them. Many times the elderly have little or no voice as well as different needs. Don’t forget that they vote, too.

David Reise

66 Freeborn St.

Portsmouth