Eyes on the Street: Demand Management
You get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax. --Ancient Economic Adage
August 21, 2006
Today’s Headlines
Sidewalk Parking: FDNY Employees Use Invalid Parking Placards (Daily News) Andrew Vesselinovitch on Bike Planning at DOT (NYT) “Empty” S.I. Bus Lane Moves More People Than Car Lanes Do (MTR) Hit-and-Run Drag Racer in Stolen Car Kills Brooklyn Cyclist (NY Post) NYPD Buys 15 Chrysler Chargers That Can Do 150-MPH (NYT) Pedicab Drivers Shoot the Breeze in Bedford-Stuyvesant (NYT) Beach … Continued
August 21, 2006
BREAKING – NYPD Withdraws Parade Rules Change
OnNYTurf is reporting that the NYPD has withdrawn its proposed revisions to parade permit rules and that the public hearing on the matter scheduled for August 23 has been cancelled.
August 18, 2006
The Weekly Carnage
Here is the third installment of our Weekly Carnage column, covering the tragic fatalities that inevitably result from a car-dependent society. This week there was a lot of family trauma. A 4-year-old girl loses her mother, father and sister. An 85-year-old man kills his presumed wife. An 18-year-old son kills his father.
August 18, 2006
The Post ‘Drops the Ball’ on Yankee Stadium Story
The Post had a story yesterday reporting on the last ditch effort to stop the Yankee's bad plan to build a new stadium with fewer seats for us Yankee fans but dump more traffic and emissions on the already suffering low-income neighborhoods of the south Bronx. Here's how the Post characterizes opponents of the plan:
August 12, 2006
Guess-the-Suburb Winner Is: Matt
Remember Wednesday's guess-the-anonymous-suburb contest? I'm very impressed: You all knew the right region -- the northeast United States. (Was it the Ames sign? The trees? The first comment suggesting that this was a place "north of the city"?)
August 11, 2006
The Weekly Carnage
After missing a week because of my visit to an undisclosed location, I am returning to present the second installment of the Weekly Carnage.
August 11, 2006
Can You Name the Town?
Sorry I missed posting last week's Weekly Carnage everyone. I was out of town, um, visiting the strip mall in the photo above.
August 9, 2006
Eyes on the Street: Above the Cross Bronx ‘Expressway’
Saturday, July 29, 2006, at the Jesup Avenue bridge over the Cross Bronx "Expressway." I called 311 to get the city to tow that abandoned car away, but the operator needed an address or an intersection to locate this vehicle. An address would be a stretch, and the computer didn't accept "Jesup Avenue and the Cross Bronx 'Expressway'" as a known intersection.
August 1, 2006