
We think having dummies for friends is, on a scale of 1 to 10, a solid 11 on the creep meter. Last Friday, traffic cops stopped Timothy Tietjen, 32, of Middle Island for driving the L.I.E. with his unhealthily-tanned CPR dummy buddy. Tietjen had been doing this for six months so that he could use the HOV lane (reserved for drivers with two or more passengers), shaving hours from his weekly commute. Why the cops took so long to stop [...]
Posted in The City on March 1st, 2007 |
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Bizarre Brooklyn commuting Olena Adames traffic

You can’t make this stuff up. According to a recent study by the Regional Plan Association, a nonpartisan planning group, by 2030, commuters will need 12 hours to get to the office. Tragically, this means that Recharger has another excuse to stay un-employed.
Same goes for nine million other losers in the New York metropolitan area. Currently, subways ferry an average 7,126,950 people each week, a figure that will rocket upwards as the city struggles to fit the extra one million [...]
Posted in The City on December 25th, 2006 |
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commuting Roman Kadinsky