Far, far less helpful than congestion pricing, but perhaps easier to accomplish in the Byzantine world of NY politics: The Mayor’s office has a plan to change the layout of Times Square and Herald Square by eliminating traffic on Broadway (Broadway would remain open for emergency vehicle use, so the folks sitting under the umbrellas [...]
Archive for March 1st, 2009
Good Idea
Posted in Architecture, Housing Policy on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
War on Drugs
Posted in Drugs, Mexico on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was hard to read this Times story about the influence of drug cartels in Mexico, which featured nuggets such as: It was drug traffickers who decided that Chief Roberto Orduña Cruz, a retired army major who had been on the job since May, should go. To make clear their insistence, they vowed to kill [...]
