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‘Unnecessary Driving’ Banned in Buffalo
Photo: Mike Groll/Associated Press via The New York Times
October 14, 2006
Parking it in Midtown
Today is International Park(ing) Day. Also known as a "parking squat," Park(ing) is a quasi-legal reclamation of urban street space in which a metered, curbside parking spaces are transformed into urban parkland complete with sod, benches, trees and human beings. Here is how Park(ing) Day is being celebrated this morning in Midtown Manhattan on 8th Avenue near 30th Street:
September 21, 2006
Pirro: Why Not Make Reckless Driving into Your Issue?
Republican lobbyist and convicted tax-evader Albert J. Pirro is the husband of Jeanine F. Pirro, the law-n-order Westchester prosecutor and Republican candidate for state Attorney General. Albert was busted the other day in White Plains for doing 51 in a 25 mph school zone - just two months after being clocked at 98 in a 55 zone.
September 18, 2006
Digging in: How Many Crashes Are Due to “Bicycle Factors?”
Charles Komanoff at Right of Way has churned out an initial analysis of the City's bicycle injury and fatality study. Here is his take:
September 14, 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
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
Inebriated Columnist Issues Fatwa Against Kamikaze Jerks
Last week, columnist Steve Dunleavy used his 400-word rant-space in the New York Post to urge the city's cab riders and motorists to throw open their car doors in front of "pedal punks" riding their "maiming machines," and, "take back the streets" from bike-commuting "kamikaze jerks."
July 27, 2006