One of his latest is a modified version of the Barnes Dance, a proposal to freeze traffic at intersections for 10 seconds in set intervals, allowing pedestrians to go in any direction they wish.
Bloomberg warned this morning that a strike could freeze traffic into record gridlock, but he urged fellow New Yorkers to show the union who's boss.
Our street is again frozen from traffic to allow fire companies and police officers from around the country, along with the victims' family members and pilots comforting widows, to wander among the flag T-shirted pilgrims passing by.
Military computers could freeze, air traffic control systems could crash, electric power could short out, transportation could grind to a halt, Government checks could be delayed corporate networks could go on vacation.
We got out into a Toronto freezing cold winter, traffic, all the hassle of shooting on streets, passersby, and we found ourselves weirdly -- like the characters -- kind of longing for the simple, regular world of shooting on a soundstage in that tiny little set.
The first major snowstorm of the season -- a powerful one-two punch that pummeled the East Coast and promised another wallop of snow and freezing temperatures -- snarled traffic yesterday and left travelers stranded at airports.
It is not just that the language is difficult and frustratingly imprecise at times, that the country is huge and the working conditions are often appalling, from freezing offices to constant traffic jams and a permanent pall of pollution.
Traffic froze in the darkness.
A 1967 photograph taken in Paris shows a man in a suit bizarrely collapsed on the pavement, a hammer-wielding worker stepping over his body, passers-by mesmerized but unhelping, snarled traffic frozen in time.
After freezing the puck in heavy traffic, Cloutier took out his frustrations on Islanders forward Dave Scatchard, who was lying on the ice.
