http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/nyregion/16plates.html

Absolutely absurd!

In Denmark, the registration tax on the purchase of a new car exceeds the price of the car by 180 percent. A new car that sells for $20,000 costs the buyer $56,000.

In Singapore, the tax on a $14,200 Ford Focus, for example, more than triples the price, pushing it to $45,500.

Other governments are moving in this direction. In Shanghai, the registration fee in 2009 averaged $4,500 per car.

I’ll never forgive him or his wife for those speed bumps they said couldn’t be removed from the WillyB. How many broken bones because of that needless design?

The Bike- Salmon Senator.

Although children who walked to and from school were more fit, they were actually slightly heavier than their classmates. “We didn’t expect that, because we tend to think that people who are more active are leaner,” Madsen says. But a closer look revealed that these students were more likely to stop while on their way to buy foods from fast food establishments, food carts or corner stores.

From NIH Research Matters, full article in the November 2009 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

That being said, I am a fan of the Boston bus terminal (at south station), which all bus lines are required to use*. It’s warm, inside, there are restroom, food options and information screens.

*Megabus had to change to another location (back bay bus loop) because their double-decker buses do not fit in the station.

To the extent that their curbside loading hurts businesses I really can’t comment. I’d imagine that having a bus load of tourists right next to your store can be a good thing.

Also, a Queens driver struck and killed a pedestrian in Astoria. The motorist stayed at the scene and was not charged. Thus, it warranted only a brief in the print edition of the Daily News, but no internet coverage. This pedestrian death is unGoogleable.

I’d pay $25,000 to replace Shelly Silver.

Lawmakers said they planned to find another way to raise the $130 million in annual revenue that would have been generated [by the $25 license-plate charge], but none offered any immediate ideas.

Ideas? Albany? Never!

He was riding in the wrong direction, which can be dangerous at the end of the block, where cars come around the corner and a building at the lot line blocks the view. Someone should tell him to refrain from doing so, at least until health care reform gets past the fillibuster.