It’s been fairly sizzling this previous week, and as I perceive it from studying Streetsblog that is due solely to the local weather change which might have been instantly undone if solely our governor hadn’t paused congestion pricing:
Not solely that, however as a result of warmth the governor made admission and parking free at state parks, which outraged the Streetsbloggers additional:
I understand that within the social media age it’s now not necessary to be constant, however what can I say? I’m old style, and I want they’d determine whether or not automobile possession is crippling us financially or it’s a backed free-for-all, as a result of they appear to inform me one or the opposite relying on no matter their agenda occurs to be in the intervening time:
I imply, I suppose driving to Jones Seashore from Manhattan and parking without cost is cheaper than taking public transit there, simply so long as you assume the automobile fell from the sky and prices nothing to personal and function–although to be truthful this in all probability rings true to many urbanists, who’ve prepared no-strings-attached entry to their mother and father’ automobiles at any time when they want them.
And hey, I do know my harping on Streetsblog is tedious, however I actually resent them for continually making arguments so specious that I discover myself defending all these asshole drivers, which actually is sort of a feat on their half. There are one million issues incorrect with automobiles and driving, however irrespective of how “proper” you’re you begin to run the danger of dropping individuals when you begin merely making stuff up.
(Additionally, professional tip to Manhattanites: a round-trip to Rockaway by way of public transit prices below six bucks, and a motorbike journey is free. (Okay, that’s assuming the bike fell from the sky and prices nothing to personal and function, which rings true to semi-professional bike bloggers who get free Marinonis despatched to them. (And sure, that’s a parenthetical assertion within a parenthetical assertion, and it is a parenthetical assertion within a parenthetical assertion within a parenthetical assertion, making this a veritable Russian doll of tedium.)))
As for me, I obtained loads of high quality bicycle-cycling on this previous weekend regardless of the warmth:
And whereas I’m typically famous for my avian pictures, so honed are my senses that even the fishes escape neither my peripheral imaginative and prescient nor my lens:
I noticed these while traversing the mighty Noticed Mill River by way of the bridge pictured above. On the threat of offending any Ichthyology Freds on the market, so far as I can inform they should be carp, however I stand prepared and prepared to be corrected. And when you’re at it, I’d additionally love to listen to from any of you pedantic sorts what the distinction is between a storm and a “storm occasion:”
If I needed to guess I’d say a storm occasion is only a storm for which you have to buy tickets prematurely, however I admit I’m not a Meteorology Fred. Both that, or a storm is simply climate, however a storm occasion is one brought on by the cancellation of congestion pricing.
Regardless, from there I took to the dust for awhile:
And I used to be practically residence after I incurred my very first puncture on a tire that has confirmed so profoundly sturdy over the previous 4 years that I had simply assumed by now that they should be flat-proof:
Alas, into each tire a small sliver of steel should protrude, and the puncture was so tiny I elected to patch it as an alternative of deploying the spare tube:
In all it was solely a minor inconvenience; nonetheless, I blame Kathy Hochul solely for my flat tire occasion.
