Driving. (A companion piece to a post from last September).
I recently spent a few weeks overseas, some of the time in a couple cities comparable in size to Toronto. Sydney, Australia and Singapore.
In neither place did I ever sit behind the wheel of a car, doing the actual driving. Mostly because the wheel was on the wrong side of the vehicle, and I may just be getting too old to handle that kind of cognitive dissonance. Motoring habits and clutch-pedal foot rusted into place. Continue reading
Now that the centre&right political class machine has kicked into high gear in its collective attempt to ensure that Zohran Mamdani does not become mayor of New York City in November, 
the excitement of his upset victory in the Democratic primary a couple weeks ago over the tattered and tatty disgraced former governor, Andrew Cuomo, has lost some of its pep if not luster. Continue reading
Ten days ago or thereabouts, I wrote a prequel to this post, Training It. In it, I suggested that folks like me yours truly (because I don’t know the proper I/me grammar with that), North Americans raised with little hands-on exposure to the wider world around them, couldn’t fully appreciate an optimally functioning transit system.
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