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Mayor Caught Flatfooted on Law-Breaking Trump Car Protests – Streetsblog New York City
Many Trump supporters who illegally blocked local roads and bridges with parades of SUVs and pick-up trucks this weekend also broke the law by obscuring their license plates — but police apparently did nothing about it, and they certainly didn’t inform Mayor de Blasio. Instead, the mayor heard about the law-breaking on Monday during his …
Let’s modernize Chicago transportation with old-school technology – Streetsblog Chicago
A somewhat shorter version of this piece previously ran in Newcity magazine. As the car-choked transportation systems of big U.S. cities like Chicago become more and more dysfunctional, tech gurus like Elon Musk want the public to believe they can save us through Jetsons-esque new inventions. Usually this new technology would allow people to cling …