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NYC – free crosstown bus plan has promise, paradoxes

For those unfamiliar with Manhattan geography, Manhattan is much longer on its roughly North-South axis than it is on its East-West axis, although the island is narrower at its southern edge. (And it turns out to be harder to quickly locate a map showing the entire island than one would think). The current (and possibly [...]

Disaster Accountability Project needs your votes to win $5,000 grant

The Disaster Accountability Project needs your votes – which in this case means just following the link below and then adding a comment (any comment will do – and if you’re so inclined, you can use the mark #poplog so we can see how many Popular Logistics readers participated).Here’s the rest of the information you [...]

Deanna Zandt: Poll: What are some common fears and resistance to joining social networking and media?

Local Deanna Zandt is conducting some research for her upcoming book, Share This!: For Share This!, I’m trying to cover and answer some of the most common hesitant feelings when it comes to people getting fully on board with the social networking movement. If you’re not active already, what are the questions you need answered, [...]

18 Indian Point sirens fail in test – Lower Hudson News

Greg Clary of LoHud.com (Lower Hudson News) reports that More than 10 percent of the 172 emergency sirens within 10 miles of Indian Point failed to work properly during a quarterly test of the alert system?this morning, according to emergency and plant officials. A spokesman for Entergy Nuclear, which owns and runs Indian Point, said [...]

Why do we outsource school bus services to the Mob?

Tom Robbins of the Village Voice reports in Back to School for Bus Hoods that a pair of brothers who served as top officials of the union representing city school bus drivers pleaded guilty today to extortion charges in Manhattan federal court.Nick and Paul Maddalone became, respectively, the fourth and fifth high-ranking executives of Local [...]

An acceptable number of child-vehicle accidents

An acceptable number of child-vehicle accidents? The answer is – however many there are, in our community, that number, certainly, is acceptable. Not that it should be acceptable – but, collectively, we acquiesce by not protesting. I don’t exclude myself. I’ve made paltry efforts to remedy the situation, at least as of this writing. City [...]

“Q” train platform collapses; 14-year old boy falls onto tracks — amNY.com

Subway station safety in question after collapse — amNY.com

Hackshaw campaign needs volunteers

The Rock Hackshaw campaign needs volunteers immediately to help with mass mailings. They need to get about 64,000 pieces into the mail by Thursday evening so that they can be received by voters before election day. They’re also going to need volunteers on Election Day for get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operations. In other words – they’re going [...]


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