Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ln http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/comment-page-1/#comment-41442 ln Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:55:12 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/#comment-41442 No discussion about the latest cyclist death? No discussion about the latest cyclist death?

]]> By: Angus Grieve-Smith http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/comment-page-1/#comment-41426 Angus Grieve-Smith Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:04:23 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/#comment-41426 Scantily-clad subway entertainment is nothing new: http://www.improveverywhere.com/2006/01/22/no-pants-2k6/ Scantily-clad subway entertainment is nothing new:

http://www.improveverywhere.com/2006/01/22/no-pants-2k6/

]]> By: Steve http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/comment-page-1/#comment-41425 Steve Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:29:59 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/#comment-41425 I was riding in the subway about 6 months ago and a woman started pole dancing. She struck me as so silly, looking around to see who was looking at her. She seemed to be deliberately swinging her limbs so as to almost miss the people around her, then looking at them to check their reactions. Eventually, she knocked awake a sleeping infant in a baby bjorn and all the passengers yelled "get out of here" in unison. I hate to be a curmudgeon and I love to see dancing and other arts performances on the platforms, but I'm not a fan of grabbing and invading space on the cars themselves. Let the pole dancers rub up against the girders on the platforms. I was riding in the subway about 6 months ago and a woman started pole dancing. She struck me as so silly, looking around to see who was looking at her. She seemed to be deliberately swinging her limbs so as to almost miss the people around her, then looking at them to check their reactions. Eventually, she knocked awake a sleeping infant in a baby bjorn and all the passengers yelled “get out of here” in unison.

I hate to be a curmudgeon and I love to see dancing and other arts performances on the platforms, but I’m not a fan of grabbing and invading space on the cars themselves. Let the pole dancers rub up against the girders on the platforms.

]]> By: Spud Spudly http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/comment-page-1/#comment-41422 Spud Spudly Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:49:19 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/#comment-41422 Good one in the Times today about the perils of teen drivers: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09RTEEN.html Good one in the Times today about the perils of teen drivers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/09RTEEN.html

]]> By: plist http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/comment-page-1/#comment-41416 plist Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:32:07 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/#comment-41416 Interesting traffic metaphor in the NYTimes article on the band Radiohead adopting a pay what you want policy for MP3s of their new album. Quote: Signing a new major-label contract “would have killed us straight off,” he added. “Money makes you numb, as M.I.A. wrote. I mean, it’s tempting to have someone say to you, ‘You will never have to worry about money ever again,’ but no matter how much money someone gives you — what, you’re not going to spend it? You’re not going to find stupid ways to get rid of it? Of course you are. It’s like building roads and expecting there to be less traffic.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/music/09pare.html?em&ex=1197435600&en=d77a02c588815c5f&ei=5087%0A Interesting traffic metaphor in the NYTimes article on the band Radiohead adopting a pay what you want policy for MP3s of their new album.
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Signing a new major-label contract “would have killed us straight off,” he added. “Money makes you numb, as M.I.A. wrote. I mean, it’s tempting to have someone say to you, ‘You will never have to worry about money ever again,’ but no matter how much money someone gives you — what, you’re not going to spend it? You’re not going to find stupid ways to get rid of it? Of course you are. It’s like building roads and expecting there to be less traffic.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/music/09pare.html?em&ex=1197435600&en=d77a02c588815c5f&ei=5087

]]> By: ddartley http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/comment-page-1/#comment-41412 ddartley Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:13:12 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/#comment-41412 The News article about how Franco Scorcia was killed on his bike refers back to David Smith being killed on his bike with this gem: "a pickup truck driver accidentally opened his door . . ." The News article about how Franco Scorcia was killed on his bike refers back to David Smith being killed on his bike with this gem:

“a pickup truck driver accidentally opened his door . . .”

]]> By: Thin-lipped matron http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/comment-page-1/#comment-41410 Thin-lipped matron Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:27:18 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/#comment-41410 Methinks the pole dancers have done more for mass transit than the adoption of metrocard. Methinks the pole dancers have done more for mass transit than the adoption of metrocard.

]]> By: Larry Littlefield http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/comment-page-1/#comment-41409 Larry Littlefield Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:18:41 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/#comment-41409 (Pricing Foe Richard Lipsky Apparently Thinks Parking Should be Free Too) But only for him, not for everyone. If parking were free for everyone, free parking would be worthless, because it would already be full by the time he got to it. Only certain people get to drive to Manhattan for free. Those are the Congestion Pricing opponents. That's what makes the bogus "populist" argument so infuriating. These people aren't stupid. They think most other people are. Especially Lipsky. In the debate over allowing new supermarkets in poor neighborhoods in the mid-1990s, he went around to White outerborough neighborhoods and said that new stores would attract "outsiders" who would cause "crime." He went around to Black neighborhoods and said having new supermarkets in their community was a White conspiracy to put Black merchants out of business. (Pricing Foe Richard Lipsky Apparently Thinks Parking Should be Free Too)

But only for him, not for everyone.

If parking were free for everyone, free parking would be worthless, because it would already be full by the time he got to it.

Only certain people get to drive to Manhattan for free. Those are the Congestion Pricing opponents. That’s what makes the bogus “populist” argument so infuriating. These people aren’t stupid. They think most other people are.

Especially Lipsky. In the debate over allowing new supermarkets in poor neighborhoods in the mid-1990s, he went around to White outerborough neighborhoods and said that new stores would attract “outsiders” who would cause “crime.” He went around to Black neighborhoods and said having new supermarkets in their community was a White conspiracy to put Black merchants out of business.

]]> By: JF http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/comment-page-1/#comment-41408 JF Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:16:00 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/12/10/todays-headlines-299/#comment-41408 Let me just be the first to say: LOL! HAHA Lipsky! Busted! Let me just be the first to say:

LOL! HAHA Lipsky! Busted!

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