The Gun Counter

http://nypost.com/2016/12/02/new-york-c ... -horrible/

As in, deliberately engineering traffic JAMS as part of a social engineering scheme.

Two Christie lackies were just sentenced to jail time for shutting down a lane on a bridge. Whereas this is just enlightened urban development.

ETA: Oops, the Christie flunkies have been convicted on multiple counts but not sentenced yet.

All the more reason not to live in one of those urban shitholes.

Even better: tear down all the bridges leading to Manhattan and fill in all the tunnels going there as well. While you're at it, block the piers with ship-wrecking riprap.That way you can't sneak any car or truck traffic on to the island. All transit has to be done via four-person cable lift car across the rivers, one car at a time. There will be two cable lift cars for each shore line, one coming in, the other going out. Then wait.

It's for the children. Really.

SoupOrMan wrote:Even better: tear down all the bridges leading to Manhattan and fill in all the tunnels going there as well. While you're at it, block the piers with ship-wrecking riprap.That way you can't sneak any car or truck traffic on to the island. All transit has to be done via four-person cable lift car across the rivers, one car at a time. There will be two cable lift cars for each shore line, one coming in, the other going out. Then wait.

It's for the children. Really.

Preaching to the choir.

The double standard is the thing. A very interesting thing. That and the hint of to what level the (fantasy) ends justify the (shit on real people's lives) means in their world, is quite frightening.

SoupOrMan wrote:Even better: tear down all the bridges leading to Manhattan and fill in all the tunnels going there as well. While you're at it, block the piers with ship-wrecking riprap.That way you can't sneak any car or truck traffic on to the island. All transit has to be done via four-person cable lift car across the rivers, one car at a time. There will be two cable lift cars for each shore line, one coming in, the other going out. Then wait.

I think I've seen this movie...

I'm reminded of the joke about building a wall, and then filling it with water.

Beyond Smart Cities: The Future of Urban Mobility

CES panel discussion with the Sec Transportation, Bosch, Mobileye and Qualcomm

My urban planning pipe dream: A ring of well-secured parking garages around the outskirts of the city that bundle a bus/subway day pass with your parking.

George guy wrote:My urban planning pipe dream: A ring of well-secured parking garages around the outskirts of the city that bundle a bus/subway day pass with your parking.

Funny thing, but my urban planning pipe dream is a bit different. It involves bulldozing the blighted inner cities seen in so many places (Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis, etc. etc. etc) and planting trees.

I have absolutely no concept of such things. The one time I was ever in NYFC, I was a young officer at Dix and happened to crawl on a USO bus for a ten-hour tour. We came into the city via the Port Authority Bus station, where the bus parked on the FIFTH FRIGGIN' FLOOR. All this in early 1980.

We did the Grey Line, and we went to Times Square, and we wandered around loose until it was time to get on the bus and take my happy ass back to Fort Dix. I much preferred the strippers in the O-club to the prostitutes on Broadway.

And, even now, I prefer my small-town, red America outlook on things.