Saturday night, my wife and I went into the city for a dinner party in Manhattan. We hit some serious traffic, which would have been easily avoidable, except all of the traffic signs warning us of what lay ahead had been hacked to read cute little messages (actually, some of them, like this one, were [...]

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Connecticut DOT has I-95 pretty well covered with traffic cams, but the interface isn’t all that great.
Mobile|Traffic has their own page for navigation, which is better, I think.
So, if you were thinking of heading up to Norwalk to get something at Best Buy or whatever, you might want to check the trouble exits in [...]

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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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Mr. Stamford was all up in arms today about people ‘blocking the box’ – i.e., drivers who block intersections. I can’t say I blame him, it is annoying, especially the other side of the issue, which is people who honk to get you to cross an intersection even though you’d be blocking.
Here is a picture [...]

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Similar Merritt Foolishness from 2006

Trucks are not allowed on the Merritt Parkway.
Seriously.
Trucks. Are. Not. Allowed. On. The. Merritt. Parkway.
Bumper to Bumper: The Complete Guide to Tractor-Trailer Operations

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I can’t really complain, this has been one hell of a mild winter in the metro area.
But its not just the temperature and snow that gets in my craw over Winter, much more it is the lack of daylight. Specifically, the cold darkness when you go home from work every day.
There is very little that [...]

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photo: fortes
In my last post regarding Winter Driving, I failed to mention what is probably the most important technology in keeping you out of an accident when driving in the snow. Its known by many names, but generically it is usually referred to as Electronic Stability Control.
What is Electronic Stability Control? Generally speaking it is [...]

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