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April 22, 2005

Fryday... ahh Earth Day

His Most Highest Excellency, The Globally Hacked Sound Ambassador, DJ/Rupture, has a new mix available online. Fantastic. Save Target As

The Next American City has a nice article on DG, exciting green thinking... "Distributed generation (DG) is the name for a new trend in electricity production in which, instead of drawing power solely from a few large, far-off power plants, buildings get some of their power from numerous smaller, local facilities often located in or on the buildings themselves."

City Journal pens a much needed article on the impending MTA/Subway collapse here in New York. Although (unsurprisingly) CJ unfairly pins alot of blame on the unions, it is an extensive and in depth look at the state of Transit in this city. The fact that Bloomy has not made it a priority, like his pet stadium, is my biggest gripe with administration. And the Daily Tabloids for refusing to indict the philandering ineffectiveness of Peter Kalikow, or calling the State and City to clean up the beast, or shit, even run it somewhat effectively. The A/C fire, and other recent dramas will hopefully bring the Elephant into the spotlight. "the MTA has never rationalized its own management structure and is inefficient even by public-sector standards." Management, Bloomy, Pataki, and yes, sometimes Labor, should get a swift kick in the ass for strangulating NYC transit... As straphangers, we're getting shafted. "The 12 percent of revenues (and subsidies) that the MTA must spend this year on interest will rise to 21 percent by 2008 and 24 percent within a decade, while city and state subsidies remain flat." Eureka, lets build a 7 extension to a Manhattan football stadium, all with more taxpayer guaranteed bonds!

Architecture Week's article on a affortable housing competition, "We cannot continue to afford the design inefficiencies of our "affordable" housing. Our current behavior needs to change, and it's simply a matter of time until we will be forced as a society to do so."

Slatin Report's editorial on the recent Acela/Amtrak mash... "the president's budget proposes $284 billion in funding for highway construction over the next six years. How did it come to pass that Amtrak...must be financed by ticket revenue while the national highway system is subsidized through taxes?"

Posted by jmarston at April 22, 2005 10:30 AM