Brutal Traffic
So, yeah, I couldn’t go even a month without having to air a complaint. This time it’s “congestion pricing.” It isn’t that I’m against lowering the traffic volume in midtown and below, it’s just that the means they’ve devised to do it
Category: New York City
NYC-The Big Jam II
So last time we talked about all the problems with Traffic & Transportation but we never got around to what to do about them. Now we’re going to face that problem. We may not solve it, or even any part
NYC-The Big Jam
The passing and signing of the Infrastructure bill sent spasms of greed and delight flashing across the country. Urban planners and the contractors that erect their dreams are aflutter with delight over the prospects ahead. And in New York politicians are girding
NYC Mayoral Race
Early voting for the NYC Mayoral race started this week and now it’s time to get serious. I’ve watched the two Democratic Mayoral debates and part of the Republican debate but as any New Yorker knows, it’s the Democratic one that’s
Bits & Pieces #89
Remember when Trump was bragging to the skies that he had saved all those jobs at Carrier’s Indiana plant? Well Carrier is planning to lay off 300 of those workers just before Christmas. Carrier is owned by United Technologies one of
Let’s Move That Traffic
The traffic problem in NYC that Mayor Bloomberg and his traffic Commissioner Jeanette Sadik-Khan made so much noise over, spent so much money to solve and introduced kamikaze bicycles to implement, has been a complete and utter failure. Streets that once
The Realities of Affordable Housing
One of the main platforms on which Mayor DeBlasio got elected this year was his stated desire to provide more affordable housing in a city that oozes people with too much money and not enough places to spend it.
Frank Bruni-Cycle Sycophant
Frank Bruni a sycophant lobbyist who masquerades as a reporter for the New York Times has just done his latest obeisance to Janette Sadik-Khan and her traffic follies? Bruni’s love letter to Sadik-Khan in the 9/11/11 Times, Sunday Review was about as
Sadik-Khan Just Can’t Get it Right
Michael Grynbaum, in a recent article on Traffic Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, completely missed the point. The people of the city don’t care if Sadik-Khan is nasty, abrasive or hard to work with. Most of them don’t ever, thank God, have to see