Japanese Highway Interchange Photos

DSC_3306, originally uploaded by Ken OHYAMA

If you aren’t doing anything on Wednesday, it would be a good time to visit with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and ask him why he wants to “Save the G” (which does need help) when he helped kill congestion charge:

Speaking on behalf of a district where 70 percent of households do not own a car, where only 2.2 percent of daily commuters drive alone to work in the pricing zone, where the households that do own a vehicle earn nearly twice as much as the ones that don’t, Jeffries said that he opposes congestion pricing because, among other reasons, “it’s unfair to working families.”
After the presser, Jeffries elaborated. The “disingenuousness of the process” bothered him. Even after all of the issues raised at the public hearings, the Traffic Commission came back with a plan that, Jeffries believes, fundamentally only offered improvements for Manhattan residents — a geographic reduction of the pricing zone, the elimination of the $4 fee for drivers who live inside the zone, and an automatic charge for drivers crossing the East River Bridges.

Rally to Save the G-train, Wednesday, May, 21st at 6:30 pm at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church 85 South Oxford Street (Lafayette Avenue):

Monday Links

Land Use and Carbon Emissions
Deep-water city-states & Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies
On ubiquitous tracking: Path intelligence, indeed
Photo Essay: One Night In Beijing – August 8/9, 2007
Bart Lootsma: Koolhaas, Constant and Dutch culture in the 1960’s
Strange river sculptures: Horror by the River
Bank Logos

Daily Transit

Bryan Boyer’s Thesis: Your New Capitol

From Pennsylvania Ave. , originally uploaded by bryanboyer

Check out Bryan Boyer’s thesis project photos and Your New Capitol Video for the Masters of Architecture I degree at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.