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New York City’s Controversial Congestion Pricing Plan Did (Not) Go Into Effect on Sunday: Here’s Why
Everything was in place. A network of $555 million worth of tolling cameras had already been installed and fully tested. The $33 million customer-service center with its 100 employees was ready to answer calls. Some $6 million was paid to other city agencies for their assistance in implementing the program. Plans on how to use the expected $15 billion the new congestion pricing program would generate for mass transit improvements …
Happy 70th Birthday U.K. Television Weather Forecasts: Seventy Years Ago, Britain’s First TV Weather Presenter Appeared On the Small Screen
While two days ago was the 17th anniversary of when, on January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on a stage at MacWorld 2007 and changed how people think about their phones, something far more momentous happened 70 years ago today in Great Britain.
On January 11, 1954, weather forecasting dramatically advanced when the first TV weatherman in the British Isles appeared on camera, precisely at 5:55 p.m. local time.
The on-camera meteorologist …
The U.K.: A Nation Caught Off Guard by Covid
After six weeks of hearings at the UK Covid-19 public inquiry, the evidence about the United Kingdom’s preparedness for the Covid pandemic is in. What it shows is a nation that was clearly caught off guard.
Indeed, by March 2021, there had been 180 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, versus the figure for South Korea, which was 3 per 100,000 inhabitants.
There was much evidence the country had been made more vulnerable by …
What Winston Churchill and Canadian Wildfires Tell Us About Our Future
As I exited my building for an afternoon walk with Snickers the Wonderdog, I noticed there was something in the air. My eyes watered and itched, my nose felt a burning sensation and the taste in my throat was as if I had swallowed a good part of a wood burning fireplace. The sky had a kind of apocalyptic orange color and my mind turned to my visits to cities …
Report from the Coronation in London: King Charles’ Crowning Moment
London was exhilarating. Excitement was in the air. And former colonists flocked to the U.K. capital to celebrate the coronation of a monarch whose yoke they threw off some 250 years earlier.
“Londoners seem amazed at the hordes of Americans here for the colourful event,” Jacqueline Bouvier – then a freelance journalist before marrying Senator John F, Kennedy months later – wrote describing the scene in London for the Washington Times-Herald …
Here’s What’s Open and What’s Closed on King Charles’ Coronation Day
The coming weekend will be a bank holiday weekend like no other in the United Kingdom, with opportunities for communities across the nation to celebrate the new reign.
King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to be crowned in what will surely be an historic coronation at Westminster Abbey on Saturday at 11 a.m. local time following a procession during which they will ride in Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Coach. …
Here’s What’s Open and What’s Closed on the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday
Thursday and Friday are bank holidays in Great Britain as part of the queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II marks the 70th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II. In the United Kingdom, the usual bank holiday that takes place at the end of May was moved to the start of June to create a four-day bank holiday weekend from June 2 through June 5.
Elizabeth ascended the …
