Recharger The Dog » commuting http://www.rechargerthedog.com Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:41:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 When bad things happen to good dummies http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2007/03/01/when-bad-things-happen-to-good-dummies/ http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2007/03/01/when-bad-things-happen-to-good-dummies/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:48:04 +0000 Recharger http://rechargerthedog.com/?p=407 11095177_240X180.jpgWe 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 [...]]]> 11095177_240X180.jpgWe 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 the guy and slap him with a $90 fine gives makes us seriously rethink our slavish devotion to traffic regs; why a photographer was there to record the event makes us rethink the entire known world.

– Olena Adames

]]> http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2007/03/01/when-bad-things-happen-to-good-dummies/feed/ 0 Another reason to smoke crack. http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2006/12/25/another-reason-to-stay-in-bed/ http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2006/12/25/another-reason-to-stay-in-bed/#comments Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:40:17 +0000 Recharger http://rechargerthedog.com/?p=262 New2.jpgYou 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 [...]]]> New2.jpgYou 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 people projected to balloon the population over the next quarter century. With 1.4 billion riders per year, the study suggests the MTA won’t be able to shoulder the extra load.

The still-to-be completed 2nd Avenue line—the “tunnel to nowhere”—might help. But with no fare hike before 2008, the MTA won’t be able to buy new Bombardier trains for the line.

Us: we’re staying home.

– Roman Kadinsky

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