[droopyEyelids]

There are three elements to reducing rat populations:

Removing access to food, destruction of their warrens, and killing the rats themselves.

New York City can not hope to begin on this while garbage disposal involves piling bags of trash on the sidewalk.

Other cities address this by improving their dumpsters and garbage cans, and while that doesn't eliminate rats, it drastically reduces their population, and limits their ability to spread as quickly.

After that it becomes possible to populations further by filling warrens and killing the actual rats.

[acomjean]

Somerville Ma is starting to use electric traps. It was pretty effective, but as long as there are meals the problem doesn't stop.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/11/15/somerville...