Mr. Mitchell calls himself "the mayor of the Bus Canal".
In the Bus Canal, a fishing camp named for a gray school bus whose engine died during a 1954 visit, Tony Mitchell had planned a crab boil for his grandchildren.
Maneuvering it from Governors Island, where it was exhibited in the art festival in September, to a stretch of the Gowanus canal behind a bus parking lot and across from a concrete plant, took the collaboration of a barge and a fleet of canoes.
Alternatively, tickets for the glass-roofed, hop-on, hop-off Canal Bus (canal.nl) cost €22 for 24 hours, and you can stop as many times as you like.
They said the driver lost control after a tire burst and broke through a concrete railing on a bridge, plunging the bus into the canal.
That route largely survived because its subterranean section, built in the bed of the Morris Canal, made it faster than bus or car.
You should also consider hotels on the Grand Canal that are on water-bus routes (www.actv.it; 6.50 euros) to the terminals.
At least 14 students died and 21 were injured in March when a school bus plunged into a canal in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
Smedley's final minutes are characterised by a sort of bland foreboding, as though he were waiting for a bus to get root canal treatment.
While covering the Italian haute couture collections in September 1964, Jane met an American trainee architect, William Ellis, on a water bus on the Grand Canal in Venice.
He's had root canal treatment and travelled on the bus with a splitting headache and toothache.
