I was amused to notice the different treatment of the NCAA basketball championships this March. Where the men's team made the bottom of the front page (and prime time coverage on CBS), the women's team, which achieved the equivalent result the next evening (on another channel) had the announcement printed by the times as the third or fourth item on the "Sports Page", where the top article on the page concerned a competitor's coach in a puff piece. The unconscious lack of interest in the women's achievements was so obvious as to be embarrassing.
"All the news that's fit to print" means all the news editors deem important as filtered through their bigotries. This from a paper which editorialized that charging 10cents for plastic bags here in NYC was reasonable; their main product is paper, produced in polluting plants, loaded with carbon black and other pigments, which is trash within 24 hours of production. What a weird world we live in.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Snow, Driving, and Parking in NYC
It is our 16th (or so) snow storm, and the streets are clogged and narrowed by the enormous number of buried cars which remain immobile- they are plowed in and snow covered. The city keeps giving in on alternate side of the street parking regulations, not realizing that the narrowing of the streets by the cars forced to park ever further from the curb makes driving on two way streets worse than crossing one lane bridges in Vermont.
It's clear that the city should force the cars off the streets, at least for enough hours that they can plow to the curb, and then re-allow parking in the cleared spaces. Where to put the snow? Put it in one of the parking spaces on the street itself, as high as necessary, so that the other spots are cleared and the parking is as dense as possible.
Long term, they have to get the cars off the streets when parked. They have to charge for parking on city streets overnight and have to encourage off street parking by encouraging the building of garages, requiring new apartment houses to have an abundance of extra rental space available, and any other tactic that would make the streets free of immobile cars so traffic an flow.
It's clear that the city should force the cars off the streets, at least for enough hours that they can plow to the curb, and then re-allow parking in the cleared spaces. Where to put the snow? Put it in one of the parking spaces on the street itself, as high as necessary, so that the other spots are cleared and the parking is as dense as possible.
Long term, they have to get the cars off the streets when parked. They have to charge for parking on city streets overnight and have to encourage off street parking by encouraging the building of garages, requiring new apartment houses to have an abundance of extra rental space available, and any other tactic that would make the streets free of immobile cars so traffic an flow.
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