Progress is slow in our fair city.This from Transportation Alternatives: The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) announced today that car-free time in Central Park will be increased by one hour in the morning on the park’s West Drive, starting Monday, August 6. Although this was less of an incremental improvement than we had…
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Some of you may know Hospitality Club(.org) or Couch Surfing(.com). These are places you can mooch free lodging from people and be nice and give people a place to stay. Great idea. My wife and I are actually members of the former, but we’ve never hosted anybody (or asked anybody for hospitality—when we travel, we…
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/opinion/18haskell.htmlJuly 18, 2007Op-Ed ContributorNew York TimesThe Path of Least CongestionBy DAVID HASKELL CONGESTION pricing came to a halt after a head-on collision with Albany on Monday. The New York State Senate decided not to take up Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s plan to charge a fee to drivers entering the busiest parts of Manhattan, causing New…
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I need to mention that I feel a little better about passing on the Turkey to Greece bike trip. Even though it would have been memorable, and I would have remembered it for the rest of my life, and I would have gotten my name and picture in some Greek papers for bike riding… it…
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