Dumbest Car Ever
by Judd WileyApril 17th, 2009, 1:00 am
This is a post I’ve wanted to write for some time. It’s origins date back to 1992, when AM General began selling a civilian version of the M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee) known as the ... more
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Still Crumbling
by Judd WileyNovember 25th, 2008, 7:11 am
So while we were on hiatus these past few months ... A bunch of stupid people lost their homes, the bankers who loaned them money lost their jobs, the stock market tanked, we all lost equity, and the federal government decided ... more
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Homeland Security Can Now Search Without Warrants
by Lewis DerkinsAugust 8th, 2008, 7:36 pm
In case you weren’t paying attention, the Department of Homeland Stupidity recently wiped its ass with the fourth amendment and threw it back in our collective faces. Citizens’ personal electronic devices are now subject to search by Customs and Border Patrol ... more
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More Gas Tax Revenue Problems
by Lewis DerkinsJuly 29th, 2008, 11:31 pm
The hits just keep coming as the New York Times reports today that Department of Transportation Secretary, Mary Peters, proposed borrowing from the Federal Highway Trust Fund’s Mass Transit account to pay for unfinished road projects. Gasoline tax revenue is falling ... more
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Falling Gas Tax Revenues = Bad For Mass Transit
by Lewis DerkinsJuly 28th, 2008, 9:56 pm
Uh oh! Last week, I mentioned that taking cars off the roads will only hurt mass transit. Today, The Wall Street Journal confirms my sentiments. The first sentence of this article says it all: An unprecedented cutback in driving is slashing the ... more
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Who Pays Their Own Way in New York?
by Lewis DerkinsJuly 26th, 2008, 11:37 pm
We often hear that automobiles are heavily subsidized. We hear that there are far more expenditures for automobiles than revenues derived from their use. This argument is typically used to advance pro-bike and pro-mass transit agendas. We hear, without much evidence, ... more
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More Problems with DC Speed Cameras
by Lewis DerkinsJuly 22nd, 2008, 6:32 pm
The Washington Post ran an article today on speed cameras that highlights another potential problem with these things that never occurred to me – double jeopardy. Liz Poliner was driving north on Connecticut Avenue from her District home one Friday last ... more
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Bike Tolls Implemented!!
by Lewis DerkinsJuly 17th, 2008, 5:24 pm
I was surprised to learn that bridge tolls for bicycles were implemented in Boulder, Colorado two years ago, but this article confirms the truth of it. Luckily for cyclists, it wasn’t the Colorado Department of Transportation that implemented the toll ... more
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Transportation Alternatives: “Hundreds of Thousands of New Yorkers Giving Up Their Cars”
by Judd WileyJuly 16th, 2008, 12:32 pm
The Gotham Gazette quotes Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for Transportation Alternatives, who recently made the following assertion: For the first time we have hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers giving up their cars and we want to encourage them to switch ... more
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New York MTA Caves to Sloppy Analysis, Political Correctness
by Judd WileyJuly 15th, 2008, 5:05 pm
Did you know that 63% of women in New York who ride the subway have been sexually harassed on the subway, while 10% claim to have been sexually abused? These horrifying statistics come from a study completed last year by Manhattan ... more
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Drinking With Bob, Special Edition: People Who Can’t Park
by Judd WileyJuly 13th, 2008, 9:06 pm
From the Drinking With Bob archives, a YouTube classic: Bottom line: Parallel parking is not difficult. If you can't parallel park, it means you're an incompetent, inept, clumsy, bungling oaf, and you don't deserve a driver's license. You don't deserve a DMV-issed ... more
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Intellectually Dishonest Use of 1922 Park Avenue Photo Continues
by Judd WileyJuly 13th, 2008, 11:47 am
Last month, Derk exposed the anti-car movement's intellectually dishonest use of the now-famous 1922 Park Avenue photograph. At first glance, the photo appears to depict a car-free Park Avenue (formerly 4th Avenue), i.e. a peaceful utopia free of the internal combustion ... more
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Pedestrians vs. Cyclists, Battleground: City Hall Park, New York
by Judd WileyJuly 13th, 2008, 9:39 am
The New York Times today published a very revealing article titled “Green Light for Cyclists Is a Red Flag for Walkers.” The topic is City Hall Park, an 8.8-acre triangular area in lower Manhattan bordered by Chambers Street to the north, ... more
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PlanBdextrous: Metro’s “Sniglet” Campaign
by Judd WileyJuly 12th, 2008, 12:10 pm
The other day, while taking the Metro to a meeting in DC, I found myself staring at the following definition located above the right-hand window of my Metro car: PlanBdextrous: (plan-bi-dek-stres) adj. able to plan an alternate route home in case ... more
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New York Subway Purse Snatcher Jailed
by Judd WileyJuly 12th, 2008, 10:07 am
Mark McIntosh, 25, the “subway purse snatcher,” has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison. He pleaded guilty last month to robbing four people on New York subway platforms this year. To recap McIntosh’s modus operandi, he ... more
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