Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Ranjay Mitra
Times Square is dug up for 11 months out of 12 in a year. The roads are split, the dividers are cordoned off in many places and the city maintenance workers have dug deep trenches in many places. Cars squeeze through the narrow alleys now - not avenues any more! And policemen find it extremely [...]
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Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Ranjay Mitra
For every 10 cars that you see in the Big Apple, seven turn out to be the yellow taxi cabs. For one, because of their rash driving, outsiders prefer not to drive within the city. And for the other, parking in the city is very costly.
It is quite intimidating to cross a wide lane with [...]
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Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Ranjay Mitra
There are scores of these hybrid buses running in the Big Apple. The city authorities wanted to make it a little easy on the environment by running these buses on alternate fuel.
The bus, parked right in front of the Whoo hoo! bill board seemed to be a nice remark from all the New Yorkers! This [...]
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Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Ranjay Mitra
When slow moving, hand drawn carts are slowly moved out of busy cities and large metros, the number of petty, manual pedi cabs, also known as rickshaw, have increased significantly in New York City. The word “pedi” probably derives from the word foot pedal.
Being manual, they are easy on the environment, but more than [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Ranjay Mitra
With the sun coming out for a short weekend in March, the central park took to its spring time festivities. The horse drawn carriage drove tourists across the park in a vintage style, while the skating rink along side was cooling off for an evening practice.
These rides are quite popular during the summer times and [...]
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