Tonight at 7:30 PM (I guess they were trying to show people how late they work when we’re paying attention) the New York City Council approved the congestion pricing measure by a vote of 30-20.
The measure now goes to the state legislature, who is expected to rubber-stamp the measure.
If approved, the new tolls could be [...]

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Today’s final opening day at the current Yankee Stadium was postponed due to rain, and will be played tomorrow night at 7:05 PM, weather permitting (Forecastfox is showing a thundercloud for PM tomorrow as I speak).
In more uplifting Yankee’s news, all 3 Metro-North lines will stop at Yankee Stadium next year! LodHud.com reports that [...]

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Wired’s car-focused Autopia blog has solved the funding crisis for mass transit worldwide by offering a simple 5-step plan for turning your city’s mass transit into a cash cow.
Unfortunately, most of these money-fountains are well established in NYC, and, as I sheepishly note in the comments, the whole issue is similar to taxes - its [...]

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It’s marketed as a business service, but as consumers get more email savvy, the advantages of having a Hosted Exchange Server Account become more clear to people like you and me.
There are 5 different classes of mobile phone user on Metro-North.

The guy with the Blackberry and Microsoft Exchange Hosting Account handling all of [...]

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Ironically, under the giant white pop-up reads ‘Tell us what you think of our new design’. In the survey, I described it as malignant.

On Monday I gave the Stamford Advocate, Norwalk Advocate (which according to my count is one too many Advocates), and Greenwich Time (a mean pun that results in millions of frustrating Google [...]

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Photo: Artukus
A study published in the Yale Law Journal in 2004 found that African-American cab drivers in New Haven (Yale researchers don’t look far outside their window for subjects, I guess) were tipped on average 6.6% less than their white counterparts.
The most disturbing part of the study is that the disparity existed even when the [...]

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In Canton, Mass tuesday afternoon a CSX Freight car loaded with lumber rolled off a side track onto a main line for 2 miles, colliding with a stopped MBTA Commuter train with over 300 passengers on board.

Dozens of passengers were sent to local hospitals, most with minor injuries, none life-threatening.
The commuter train was stopped by [...]

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