So, here I sit – waiting for more snow. I gather from the weather reports that I won’t have to wait long. Of course, we already had significant snow last month – the storm the media and others have dubbed the Boxing Day Blizzard of 2010. I rather enjoyed that but then I: live on [...]

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I have been in London recently my friends – last week in fact – and I have seen the Barclay’s cycle hire in action. I saw it during the rush hour commute, late at night as people hurried to catch the last train, on a glorious Saturday in Kensington Gardens. I saw people of all [...]

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Two items of interest this morning (well, of interest to me and anyone else searching for a sign of sanity and intelligence amidst NYC traffic and transportation news). I was reading The Villager (which you’ve likely never heard of unless you live in the East Side and honestly, even then . . . ). But [...]

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David Yassky, the new chairman of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, has made a SHOCKING (not) discovery: Manhattan has more yellow cabs than Brooklyn. To be fair, it’s not something he just recently discovered. He discovered it some time ago (I imagine the same way most people do – by using their eyes) but now [...]

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Jay Walder, the new MTA chief has said that “New Yorkers should be able to expect the same type of customer experience riders enjoy in London“—whose transportation system he worked for between 2001-2006—”with accurate arrival information and modern fare technology.” Yes, Mr. Walder and I have been expecting it for some time. My expectations are [...]

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