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	<title>Comments on: Open Thread: How Was Your Commute This Morning?</title>
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		<title>By: Houston Spray On Bedliners</title>
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		<dc:creator>Houston Spray On Bedliners</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>


The Police Department washes approximately 50 police vehicles per week at
the Police Headquarters.  “Washing our vehicles is necessary to
maintain  them, but does not necessarily require the use of water,” said
Chief Billy Quach.  “The Long Beach Police Department is committed to
looking for ways to reduce our operational water usage to be in line with the
City’s water policies.”
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Police Department washes approximately 50 police vehicles per week at<br />
the Police Headquarters.  “Washing our vehicles is necessary to<br />
maintain  them, but does not necessarily require the use of water,” said<br />
Chief Billy Quach.  “The Long Beach Police Department is committed to<br />
looking for ways to reduce our operational water usage to be in line with the<br />
City’s water policies.”</p>
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		<title>By: Lena92</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lena92</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey  Ich bin Lena
liebe gruesse leute, bin ganz neu hier.
 
Adios
Lena</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey  Ich bin Lena<br />
liebe gruesse leute, bin ganz neu hier.</p>
<p>Adios<br />
Lena</p>
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		<title>By: BrainBlast</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/08/08/open-thread-how-was-your-commute-this-morning/comment-page-2/#comment-278303</link>
		<dc:creator>BrainBlast</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Spray on bedliners end the looks of a pickup truck&#039;s bed possibly much better than any other truck&#039;s bed covering choice. Specifically now that the truck&#039;s bed liner covering colour can match the paint of your pickup. However, truck&#039;s bed liners come with several troubles. If you&#039;re considering of finding a spray liner or currently have a single, right here are a number of ideas to consider.

Everlasting might not usually be very best. Confident, it&#039;s a plus to get a liner that lasts as lengthy as the truck, particularly with a life-time warranty. But that in no techniques means you get a liner that can&#039;t be broken. See, the assure just indicates the liner will be repaired.

Repair implies a respray with all the accompanying hassles and time invested. And in the meantime you drive a pickup with a ruined liner and possibly probabilities of a broken truck&#039;s bed as well. The actual essential to spray liner durability is the thickness of the covering. That means liner material can be torn apart and worn apart and even now the damage may not get to the truck&#039;s bed itself.

Another considered you may well not want to think about is how that liner receives on the truck. The only way the liner paint will keep on is with appropriate surface preparation. That means the paint will get sanded quite aggressively. It all but gets destroyed just before the liner coat goes on. Picture this. You get this new truck with the meticulously utilized factory paint coating and then you shell out this man to acquire an air sander and sand the paint practically off. Then you spray a paint layer on over that.

That&#039;s not essentially a poor thing, it&#039;s just a painful thought. That&#039;s what it normally requires to get that &quot;permanent&quot; liner.

Damage to truck beds comes as far more than just scratches as well. Dents may possibly do far more harm than scrapes can genuinely. Dents undoubtedly require far more to repair than a handful of scratches. Dent defense is another way that liners spend for themselves. Spray coatings generally add almost a full quarter inch to the bed thickness. That coat includes rubber texture materials as effectively as quickly hardening paint as nicely. That thickness absorbs bumps although warding off injury.

For seems to be a sprayed liner may well be unbeatable, but for safety a inexpensive alternative avoids some of the difficulties designed in with spray.

Low cost rubber mats safeguard from affect far better and are effortlessly eliminated. With long lasting liners, truly nasty hauling helps make a mess of the bed and you have no alternative but to both clean it out or go away it a mess. But with momentary liners, it&#039;s an straightforward task to slip the mat in or out when you have to have it or when you don&#039;t.

An additional consideration with spray on base liners arises when you get the value tag. A specialist covering charges you large. That&#039;s a actual cause to appear at other alternatives or at least to very carefully protect the liner if you already have 1.

Check out a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zimbio.com/Abedlinerstory/articles/J36dGWO_EXb/The+greatest+bedliners&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bedliner&lt;/a&gt; today and see what you&#039;re missing!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spray on bedliners end the looks of a pickup truck&#8217;s bed possibly much better than any other truck&#8217;s bed covering choice. Specifically now that the truck&#8217;s bed liner covering colour can match the paint of your pickup. However, truck&#8217;s bed liners come with several troubles. If you&#8217;re considering of finding a spray liner or currently have a single, right here are a number of ideas to consider.</p>
<p>Everlasting might not usually be very best. Confident, it&#8217;s a plus to get a liner that lasts as lengthy as the truck, particularly with a life-time warranty. But that in no techniques means you get a liner that can&#8217;t be broken. See, the assure just indicates the liner will be repaired.</p>
<p>Repair implies a respray with all the accompanying hassles and time invested. And in the meantime you drive a pickup with a ruined liner and possibly probabilities of a broken truck&#8217;s bed as well. The actual essential to spray liner durability is the thickness of the covering. That means liner material can be torn apart and worn apart and even now the damage may not get to the truck&#8217;s bed itself.</p>
<p>Another considered you may well not want to think about is how that liner receives on the truck. The only way the liner paint will keep on is with appropriate surface preparation. That means the paint will get sanded quite aggressively. It all but gets destroyed just before the liner coat goes on. Picture this. You get this new truck with the meticulously utilized factory paint coating and then you shell out this man to acquire an air sander and sand the paint practically off. Then you spray a paint layer on over that.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not essentially a poor thing, it&#8217;s just a painful thought. That&#8217;s what it normally requires to get that &#8220;permanent&#8221; liner.</p>
<p>Damage to truck beds comes as far more than just scratches as well. Dents may possibly do far more harm than scrapes can genuinely. Dents undoubtedly require far more to repair than a handful of scratches. Dent defense is another way that liners spend for themselves. Spray coatings generally add almost a full quarter inch to the bed thickness. That coat includes rubber texture materials as effectively as quickly hardening paint as nicely. That thickness absorbs bumps although warding off injury.</p>
<p>For seems to be a sprayed liner may well be unbeatable, but for safety a inexpensive alternative avoids some of the difficulties designed in with spray.</p>
<p>Low cost rubber mats safeguard from affect far better and are effortlessly eliminated. With long lasting liners, truly nasty hauling helps make a mess of the bed and you have no alternative but to both clean it out or go away it a mess. But with momentary liners, it&#8217;s an straightforward task to slip the mat in or out when you have to have it or when you don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>An additional consideration with spray on base liners arises when you get the value tag. A specialist covering charges you large. That&#8217;s a actual cause to appear at other alternatives or at least to very carefully protect the liner if you already have 1.</p>
<p>Check out a <a href="http://www.zimbio.com/Abedlinerstory/articles/J36dGWO_EXb/The+greatest+bedliners" rel="nofollow">bedliner</a> today and see what you&#8217;re missing!</p>
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		<title>By: Urinkinue</title>
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		<dc:creator>Urinkinue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Houston, TX - The Houston Texans signed Andre Johnson to a two-year contract gauge on Thursday, a handle that, according to the Houston Account, makes him the highest paid major receiver in the NFL.

Johnson, 29, led the NFL in receiving yards the pattern two seasons and had five years and $35 million left over on his existing contract.

The Chronicle reported the increase to be quality $38.5 million, including $13 million guaranteed. On commonplace, Johnson will nowadays order $10.5 million per year settled the next seven seasons, not including effectuation incentives.

&quot;I in any case said I wanted to put on since unified band, and to be gifted to frivolity representing the Houston Texans to my whole trade is a tremendous honor,&quot; Johnson said. &quot;I usually said I wanted to be portion of something memorable, and I knew that coming to a new organism, things were going to be a little jagged in the origin, and second I think like things are enchanting that transform with a view us.&quot;

The University of Miami-Florida work has spent his thorough seven-year career in Houston after the Texans selected him with the third overall pick in the 2003 NFL Draft.

Johnson has recorded back-to-back 1,500-yard receiving seasons, including a 101-catch, 1,569-yard competition matrix year. He also scored nine touchdowns in 2009 to up his career total to 42 TDs in 102 games.

&quot;Over the extent of the mould two years, cipher has played to the on the up that this young man has as big that I&#039;ve been about, other than the same other cat,&quot; said fully omnibus Gary Kubiak. &quot;What he&#039;s been doing has been special, and there&#039;s a collection more to come. So, that&#039;s wealthy to be exciting.&quot;

He has caught 587 passes for 7,948 yards in excess of the indubitably of his career, just two of the numerous confederate records he owns.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Houston, TX &#8211; The Houston Texans signed Andre Johnson to a two-year contract gauge on Thursday, a handle that, according to the Houston Account, makes him the highest paid major receiver in the NFL.</p>
<p>Johnson, 29, led the NFL in receiving yards the pattern two seasons and had five years and $35 million left over on his existing contract.</p>
<p>The Chronicle reported the increase to be quality $38.5 million, including $13 million guaranteed. On commonplace, Johnson will nowadays order $10.5 million per year settled the next seven seasons, not including effectuation incentives.</p>
<p>&#8220;I in any case said I wanted to put on since unified band, and to be gifted to frivolity representing the Houston Texans to my whole trade is a tremendous honor,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;I usually said I wanted to be portion of something memorable, and I knew that coming to a new organism, things were going to be a little jagged in the origin, and second I think like things are enchanting that transform with a view us.&#8221;</p>
<p>The University of Miami-Florida work has spent his thorough seven-year career in Houston after the Texans selected him with the third overall pick in the 2003 NFL Draft.</p>
<p>Johnson has recorded back-to-back 1,500-yard receiving seasons, including a 101-catch, 1,569-yard competition matrix year. He also scored nine touchdowns in 2009 to up his career total to 42 TDs in 102 games.</p>
<p>&#8220;Over the extent of the mould two years, cipher has played to the on the up that this young man has as big that I&#8217;ve been about, other than the same other cat,&#8221; said fully omnibus Gary Kubiak. &#8220;What he&#8217;s been doing has been special, and there&#8217;s a collection more to come. So, that&#8217;s wealthy to be exciting.&#8221;</p>
<p>He has caught 587 passes for 7,948 yards in excess of the indubitably of his career, just two of the numerous confederate records he owns.</p>
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		<title>By: sertitoulfult</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/08/08/open-thread-how-was-your-commute-this-morning/comment-page-2/#comment-202061</link>
		<dc:creator>sertitoulfult</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Guys,
          Legitimate regsitered here. I must assent to admitting that this forum is chagrined it ooks truthful cool. I promise I will fancy this.

Myself Craig from Houston. I make out the internet and public networking sites and ofcourse the worn out gold forums.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Guys,<br />
          Legitimate regsitered here. I must assent to admitting that this forum is chagrined it ooks truthful cool. I promise I will fancy this.</p>
<p>Myself Craig from Houston. I make out the internet and public networking sites and ofcourse the worn out gold forums.</p>
<p>I own a only one sites too. Some of which are below. Its casual as a matter of fact to make sites and pull down some money. If you are interested you can PM me or notify here and I resolution try to help.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Steve, how are they surmountable? I ride as much as I can to work but in the summer months I usually leave home earlier to get out while it is still cool, so I&#039;m not too sweaty when I get to work. 

There is a gym at work with showers, but unfortunately, it is only open in the evenings. I think this will be changing soon, providing an obvious solution. But what can others do?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve, how are they surmountable? I ride as much as I can to work but in the summer months I usually leave home earlier to get out while it is still cool, so I&#8217;m not too sweaty when I get to work. </p>
<p>There is a gym at work with showers, but unfortunately, it is only open in the evenings. I think this will be changing soon, providing an obvious solution. But what can others do?</p>
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		<title>By: steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Along with the usual reasons people don&#039;t bicycle (danger, lack of perking, aversion to exercise), people don&#039;t bicycle to work b/c they fear arriving at work sweaty/disheveled, and fear being perceived as &quot;fringe.&quot;. These last two barriers are very surmountable, people who do bike to work can help remove the stigma.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Along with the usual reasons people don&#8217;t bicycle (danger, lack of perking, aversion to exercise), people don&#8217;t bicycle to work b/c they fear arriving at work sweaty/disheveled, and fear being perceived as &#8220;fringe.&#8221;. These last two barriers are very surmountable, people who do bike to work can help remove the stigma.</p>
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		<title>By: P</title>
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		<dc:creator>P</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, it&#039;s unlikely that we&#039;re going to get large percentages of people going more than 5 miles each way.  Unfortunately, New York is a huge and centralized city with much of the workforce living more than 5 miles away from work- perhaps the distance you can go in a bit over a 1/2 hour.  

On the bright side- Harlem and Sunnyside are each 5 miles from Midtown while Sunset Park and Bushwick are 5 miles from Lower Manhattan.  There&#039;s no question there is growth potential for bicycle commuting.  This doesn&#039;t even consider the non-Manhattan employment centers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s unlikely that we&#8217;re going to get large percentages of people going more than 5 miles each way.  Unfortunately, New York is a huge and centralized city with much of the workforce living more than 5 miles away from work- perhaps the distance you can go in a bit over a 1/2 hour.  </p>
<p>On the bright side- Harlem and Sunnyside are each 5 miles from Midtown while Sunset Park and Bushwick are 5 miles from Lower Manhattan.  There&#8217;s no question there is growth potential for bicycle commuting.  This doesn&#8217;t even consider the non-Manhattan employment centers.</p>
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		<title>By: Fendergal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fendergal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most people I know think that 15 miles is really far. And depending on one&#039;s commute, it could be a pretty unpleasant distance. Of course, a coworker who lives in Bed Stuy said to me on Wednesday, &quot;I wish I had a bike.&quot;

But as a longtime bike commuter, I like having the choice between the train and the bike. Some days, I don&#039;t want to ride. I have a lot to carry, it&#039;s snowing, my legs are tired, I&#039;m sick, whatever. But, over the years, I&#039;m always much more satisfied riding than taking the train. And that&#039;s having been caught in snowstorms and thunderstorms, slipping on slabs of ice, getting knocked down by another cyclist, you name it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people I know think that 15 miles is really far. And depending on one&#8217;s commute, it could be a pretty unpleasant distance. Of course, a coworker who lives in Bed Stuy said to me on Wednesday, &#8220;I wish I had a bike.&#8221;</p>
<p>But as a longtime bike commuter, I like having the choice between the train and the bike. Some days, I don&#8217;t want to ride. I have a lot to carry, it&#8217;s snowing, my legs are tired, I&#8217;m sick, whatever. But, over the years, I&#8217;m always much more satisfied riding than taking the train. And that&#8217;s having been caught in snowstorms and thunderstorms, slipping on slabs of ice, getting knocked down by another cyclist, you name it.</p>
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		<title>By: johnprolly</title>
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		<dc:creator>johnprolly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mine was the same as it is every morning. Minus the 1000 people on the bridge who acted like they were on a Nazi death march.

Pedestrians walking 10 abreast, flailing their arms about, screaming and swatting their purses at cyclists. It was an annoyance to say the least.

I ride into work everyday and with a 10 commute from Greenpoint to Nolita, I can&#039;t complain. It takes 45 minutes by train to get from door to door.

I still don&#039;t understand why MORE people don&#039;t just ride their bike everyday to work. At most, the average person&#039;s commute can&#039;t be more than 15 miles round trip.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mine was the same as it is every morning. Minus the 1000 people on the bridge who acted like they were on a Nazi death march.</p>
<p>Pedestrians walking 10 abreast, flailing their arms about, screaming and swatting their purses at cyclists. It was an annoyance to say the least.</p>
<p>I ride into work everyday and with a 10 commute from Greenpoint to Nolita, I can&#8217;t complain. It takes 45 minutes by train to get from door to door.</p>
<p>I still don&#8217;t understand why MORE people don&#8217;t just ride their bike everyday to work. At most, the average person&#8217;s commute can&#8217;t be more than 15 miles round trip.</p>
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		<title>By: usq</title>
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		<dc:creator>usq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And, subways as hybrid-human electric transit are ridiculous!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And, subways as hybrid-human electric transit are ridiculous!</p>
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		<title>By: usq</title>
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		<dc:creator>usq</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Global warming is real and the current strategy is adaption and mitigation whether it&#039;s large corporations, governments, or elected officials.  It&#039;s obvious that the MTA like so many others will have to reinvent itself much like Microsoft the emergence of the internet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Global warming is real and the current strategy is adaption and mitigation whether it&#8217;s large corporations, governments, or elected officials.  It&#8217;s obvious that the MTA like so many others will have to reinvent itself much like Microsoft the emergence of the internet.</p>
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		<title>By: Gwin</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/08/08/open-thread-how-was-your-commute-this-morning/comment-page-2/#comment-35254</link>
		<dc:creator>Gwin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Offgrid: correct me if I&#039;m wrong, but did you say you &quot;normally&quot; ride the wrong way up streets? Neither that nor riding on the sidewalks are good biking etiquette (or legal) under *any* circumstances.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Offgrid: correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, but did you say you &#8220;normally&#8221; ride the wrong way up streets? Neither that nor riding on the sidewalks are good biking etiquette (or legal) under *any* circumstances.</p>
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		<title>By: John Hunka</title>
		<link>http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/08/08/open-thread-how-was-your-commute-this-morning/comment-page-2/#comment-35248</link>
		<dc:creator>John Hunka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Re: &quot;Freak storms are just that, freak. Designing for this type of event would add hundreds of millions of dollars in cost to the system.&quot;  This was not necessarily a &quot;freak&quot; event.  Scientists predict that rainstorms are becoming more intense as a result of global warming.  If global warming really intensified this storm, storms of this magnitude could become common in the near future.  Thus, maybe its time for the MTA to start installing a lot more pumps as soon as possible.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Re: &#8220;Freak storms are just that, freak. Designing for this type of event would add hundreds of millions of dollars in cost to the system.&#8221;  This was not necessarily a &#8220;freak&#8221; event.  Scientists predict that rainstorms are becoming more intense as a result of global warming.  If global warming really intensified this storm, storms of this magnitude could become common in the near future.  Thus, maybe its time for the MTA to start installing a lot more pumps as soon as possible.</p>
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		<title>By: jeremy</title>
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		<dc:creator>jeremy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So I was doored twice and got a flat avoiding a ups truck making a u-turn into me.</description>
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		<title>By: Marcus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know most of the complaints about the MTA were about how the disruption was handleds service-wise, but just a note about it&#039;s root cause from an engineering perspective.

Several posts mentioned this as another symptom of poor infrastructure maintenance, but I don&#039;t really think that is the case (the MTA already pumps millions of gallons of ground water out on dry days).  Pumps and sewers are designed to accept certain volumes, and those are usually arrived at from design codes.  Freak storms are just that, freak.  Designing for this type of event would add hundreds of millions of dollars in cost to the system.  I think in events like this we all need to freak out a little less, chill at home for a couple of hours while they pump the system out and then go to work.  It&#039;s one day out of how many years of your life?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know most of the complaints about the MTA were about how the disruption was handleds service-wise, but just a note about it&#8217;s root cause from an engineering perspective.</p>
<p>Several posts mentioned this as another symptom of poor infrastructure maintenance, but I don&#8217;t really think that is the case (the MTA already pumps millions of gallons of ground water out on dry days).  Pumps and sewers are designed to accept certain volumes, and those are usually arrived at from design codes.  Freak storms are just that, freak.  Designing for this type of event would add hundreds of millions of dollars in cost to the system.  I think in events like this we all need to freak out a little less, chill at home for a couple of hours while they pump the system out and then go to work.  It&#8217;s one day out of how many years of your life?</p>
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		<title>By: offgrid</title>
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		<dc:creator>offgrid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t commute, I just ride an ATB a lot between the West 
Village and the Battery. I rode today in--hands down--the 
worst traffic I&#039;ve seen in five or six years cycling downtown.

Drivers were crazed. Riders were crazed. I was crazed, 
riding sidewalks (albeit at walking speed) between Canal 
Street and Battery Park City (past cops on foot who 
sensibly ignored me) when not riding the wrong way on 
streets I ride other days, &#039;most every day, pretty much 
obeying traffic laws. At Varick and Franklin I managed 
not to get my legs severed above the knee only thanks 
to the kindness of crazed drivers. This was not a proud 
day for me or for NYC.

South Cove wasn&#039;t even where I&#039;d had in mind to go but, after 
stopping for a while to watch the folks who were getting 
ready to load the Moondance Diner on a flatbed, reportedly 
headed for Wyoming, scratch their heads, going the opposite 
direction from where I&#039;d intended suited the day&#039;s dynamic.

One more lower Manhattan low-rise block about to claw the 
clouds. Marvelous big old ailanthus in the middle of that 
block. Trinity Real Estate&#039;s remorseless frenzy to rid 
downtown of every last vestige of funky charm differs from 
Trump&#039;s impulses only in the fig leaf of charity Trinity 
applies to its gentrification. The block where Trump&#039;s first 
downtown monstrosity is rising also used to have a great 
tree, but someone else murdered it before he got the chance.

Somehow, the weirdest part of the day was having missed the 
cloudburst that brought down the subways. I went to bed on 
any old hot summer night and slept through a meteorological 
event whose nasty effects I easily might not even have noticed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t commute, I just ride an ATB a lot between the West<br />
Village and the Battery. I rode today in&#8211;hands down&#8211;the<br />
worst traffic I&#8217;ve seen in five or six years cycling downtown.</p>
<p>Drivers were crazed. Riders were crazed. I was crazed,<br />
riding sidewalks (albeit at walking speed) between Canal<br />
Street and Battery Park City (past cops on foot who<br />
sensibly ignored me) when not riding the wrong way on<br />
streets I ride other days, &#8216;most every day, pretty much<br />
obeying traffic laws. At Varick and Franklin I managed<br />
not to get my legs severed above the knee only thanks<br />
to the kindness of crazed drivers. This was not a proud<br />
day for me or for NYC.</p>
<p>South Cove wasn&#8217;t even where I&#8217;d had in mind to go but, after<br />
stopping for a while to watch the folks who were getting<br />
ready to load the Moondance Diner on a flatbed, reportedly<br />
headed for Wyoming, scratch their heads, going the opposite<br />
direction from where I&#8217;d intended suited the day&#8217;s dynamic.</p>
<p>One more lower Manhattan low-rise block about to claw the<br />
clouds. Marvelous big old ailanthus in the middle of that<br />
block. Trinity Real Estate&#8217;s remorseless frenzy to rid<br />
downtown of every last vestige of funky charm differs from<br />
Trump&#8217;s impulses only in the fig leaf of charity Trinity<br />
applies to its gentrification. The block where Trump&#8217;s first<br />
downtown monstrosity is rising also used to have a great<br />
tree, but someone else murdered it before he got the chance.</p>
<p>Somehow, the weirdest part of the day was having missed the<br />
cloudburst that brought down the subways. I went to bed on<br />
any old hot summer night and slept through a meteorological<br />
event whose nasty effects I easily might not even have noticed.</p>
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		<title>By: Greg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Biked in an did not even realize anything had happened until co-workers started texting to say they would be in late.</description>
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		<title>By: Abbath</title>
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		<dc:creator>Abbath</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I rode my bike from Park Slope. I yelled at pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge. Just like every day, duh!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I rode my bike from Park Slope. I yelled at pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge. Just like every day, duh!</p>
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		<title>By: Tuna Loaf</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tuna Loaf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rode on a bus from Harlem to Canal Street. Took 2 hours. As far as I can tell, that&#039;s not an unusual speed for a Manhattan bus. 

We need an effective traffic management plan in this city, and a coordinated plan for transit emergencies such as today&#039;s. Being on a packed full bus that had to yield to merging single occupant vehicles, and seeing masses of people turned away from bus entry was pretty frustrating. 

If the subway fails, implementation and enforcement of bus priority on all major NYC avenues should be of primary importance.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rode on a bus from Harlem to Canal Street. Took 2 hours. As far as I can tell, that&#8217;s not an unusual speed for a Manhattan bus. </p>
<p>We need an effective traffic management plan in this city, and a coordinated plan for transit emergencies such as today&#8217;s. Being on a packed full bus that had to yield to merging single occupant vehicles, and seeing masses of people turned away from bus entry was pretty frustrating. </p>
<p>If the subway fails, implementation and enforcement of bus priority on all major NYC avenues should be of primary importance.</p>
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