“I was sitting in traffic when all of a sudden a taxi jumped on the sidewalk,” writes YouTube dash-cam fan NY DashCams about his or her only video. Watch as a taxi driver decides to circumvent a traffic jam by brazenly driving down the sidewalk, getting stuck, trying to turn a corner, and getting stuck some more. And then, the whole block erupts into a symphony of damning honking. Very exciting… I mean, it’s no tank, meteorite or mass soul-crushing despair worthy of a Daily Show segment, but this isn’t Russia. Keep on tryin’, NY DashCams!
As long as you stay off the highway, you're more likely to get a ticket for riding your bike on the sidewalk in New York than you are for speeding in a car. That's despite the fact that speeding is the most common cause of traffic-related deaths in NYC, with…
We've already discussed the various reasons why Russians have dash-cams, reasons which may or may not be tank related. But here's one Russian driver who isn't intimidated by the legally-sporadic and "allegedly" bribe-happy traffic police. Meet Russian taxi driver Nikitta Rumyantsev who knows his traffic laws. All of them. Verbatim. And…
Last year, a federal court upheld that New York City can limit the number of artists who are allowed to sell work in public places like Battery Park and Union Sauare. A group of activists are fighting that decision, and have asked the Supreme Court to hear their case, but…
