Comments on: Today’s Headlines

By: J. Mork

J. Mork — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:20:45 +0000

Best thing about Google bike directions is that you can “grab” the route line and drag it somewhere else if you don’t like one of the streets it suggests.

By: Urbanis

Urbanis — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:18:49 +0000

I hope the state also hands back control of rent regulation to the city.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:43:47 +0000

I think the Gov. Island, Brooklyn Br. Park and Javits Center is just the beginning. I hope the State gives the city everything it owns in the five boroughs.

By: Geck

Geck — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:28:49 +0000

In addition to adding Bike Directions on Google Maps (which accounts for bike paths, bike lanes, hills, busy streets in mapping routes) Google has added bike lanes and preferred bike routes to Google Maps (and transit-was that there before?) in the More check boxes.

By: Geck

Geck — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:16:15 +0000

Bike Directions have been added to Google Maps http://maps.google.com/

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-time-to-bike.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/biking-directions-added-to-google-maps.html

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/03/google_adds_bicycle_directions.html

By: vnm

vnm — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:03:31 +0000

Re Klein:

Under the proposal, private schools would still pay the same amount into the payroll tax that is supposedly “dedicated” to the MTA. However, they’d be reimbursed for those payments by the State. This is the way it is set up for public schools now.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:34:57 +0000

Thank you, Albany, for realizing that you’re too incompetent to have a stake in our parks! Now could you please get your inefficient, politically-motivated hands off of our rail- and road-ways, too?

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:09:28 +0000

“The group agreed something must be done to ‘send a message’ to Albany.”

Sounds like more pension enhancements, reductions in public services, tax hikes and borrowing. What other message would they send, other than the fact that the serfs have it too good? Haven’t they gotten enough of that already?

If inflation gets going, perhaps they’ll want a minimum wage cut too, to reduce their prices when they buy goods and services produced by private sector workers.