APRIL 4,
2007 --
Once again, LPR,
last week, got caught in a traffic jam on Madison Avenue, created
by two double-parked trucks that reduced the thoroughfare's three
lanes to one -- with no PVB agent in sight. (Perhaps they were busy
giving out $65 tickets for cars parked safely out of traffic lanes,
but a few minutes overtime at meters.)
The accompanying photos show the PVB gadget (held by a PVB person) that reads
registration bar codes to get information for summonses, and the hand of another
PVB person putting a ticket on a windshield.
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PVB
Gadget …
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Parking
Violations at work on 3-31-07.
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LPR wonders about
the tracking uses of the bar codes on registration and inspection
stickers.
Privacy inquiry, anyone?
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Pedicabs
in Columbus Circle.
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Mayor Bloomberg last
week vetoed a City Council proposal to limit pedicabs, asking that
free enterprise determine their number. (LPR would encourage the mayor
to expand his support of freedom to undo other burdensome regulations.)
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Oil
vs. US
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Considering the renewed
gas price spike (the prices shown in the accompanying photo have since
been raised), the pedicabs might one day have Manhattan streets to
share only with taxis and limos and bicycles and horse-drawn carriages.
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Doubleparked
on Madison Avenue.
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One
Lane - Madison Avenue
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