I Heart NYC
So 3 weeks into the new job and so far so good. It's a different environment which is what I needed most. A Clean Slate. The team is really patient with me and understanding that Reuters is more complex than most would think ... information overload. My Canadian manager Joe sent me a bottle of champagne for xmas - sweet - a good manager will always send liquor.:: Transit Strike 2005 ::
One of thousands of posts I'm sure. It was definitely unusual. Reverse of the blackout from 2003 in every way. People streaming into m'tan from brooklyn in blistering cold. So many cars and people everywhere in the city. Even driving into Bklyn from Qns was horrible. By the third day it wasn't so bad anymore. I stayed home with the laptop doing work and I got more done than I normally would - minus the 1 hour lunch break.
A city so dependent upon it's mass transit system would implode on itself if it lasted longer than a week. The sheer amount of money lost by businesses and the cost of pollution caused by all the extra cars coming into and out of m'tan would be unbearable. Lesson learned - be nicer to bicyclists. Stronger enforcement/respect of bike lanes. We're already a city that walks more than any other...but we could do much more with bikes. Cars = bad!
Love-Hate relationship with this city continues. 23 years / 5 months and counting.
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