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Info-snack, agar, cóctel, bayoya, caldo de cultivo, nonsense, et al.
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Sometimes one gets caught up in the routines of daily life and gets blinded by the changes that are happening right under one’s nose. For the past year I’ve had the same routine coming in and out of work. I walk from point A to point B, between my office and the number 5 subway station on bowling green. Between those points there are several streets. One of which is Pearl Street.
On Pearl Street, each and every day, there is a line of black Lincoln Continentals stretched from one block to the next. They are there to pick up passengers (probably executives) from the surrounding buildings. Ever since I’ve been working in downtown Manhattan, these limo service vehicles have been there. They are as natural to the surrounding landscape as the bricks from the buildings and the trees.
For some odd reason, I hadn’t noticed that there has been a subtle change in these vernacular objects. The change had been so subtle that, even though I knew it existed, I had not caught on to its significance. Today, this change was abruptly but delightfully exposed to me. There were no longer these black gas-guzzling machines parked harmonically one behind the other. Not today.
Today there was a change. Such is this change that I would consider it to be a strong declaration. Instead of the Lincoln Continentals, there stood a fleet of 10 or so grey Toyota Prius'
(http://www.toyota.com/prius/).
I was shocked! I had seen one or two of these cars parked there before but never in so eloquent a manner. Not in such an imposing way to have caught my eye and actually appreciate what their stature meant. These cars are small and ugly but oh so sweet in significance. They are hybrid cars. Hybrid taxi cars.
I had just discovered something that had been there all along. What does this mean? Could there actually be a change of guard? The potential of this change could be so significant I had to smile. Yellow taxis, which so defined what New York has been for the last couple of decades could be facing extinction against a measly little Jap car? If there’s a God please hear my prayers!
I am no scientist but I’m willing to bet that the impact that this conversion would have on gas consumption and air pollution alone would be well worth the elimination of those beastly Crown Victorians and Continentals. Not to mention that driving a compact car instead of these monster trucks would definitely benefit traffic flow in the city.
So today, among the routine of every day life I was awakened by the potential of change. And I would like to make a toast to the not-so-new evolution of the “New” York hybrid taxi over the “Old” York regular taxis.
Salud.
si mano ye wrote that sh!t meng. se nota que estaba ensorrao.
Mi proximo ensayo va a ser sobre un mojon.
A shit! Ya ese tema esta copao.
http://www.into-asia.com/bangkok/othertransport/motorcycletaxi.php
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