The discount buses, bulky squatters that often idle in the city's curbside loading zones, have long been a bane of businesses and residents concerned about congestion, noise and risky conditions for pedestrians.
In "Gidropark," a book of black and white photos recently published by Damiani, she captures a city idling between the past and the present.
But, according to a satellite system and the fare box in the cab, Mr. Chhantyal stopped picking up passengers around 10 30 p.m. and just roamed the city, idling for long stretches.
FOR the 45 years since its inception, Port St. Lucie has often been seen as something of a Florida nowheresville, a suburban city idling between the more attention-worthy municipalities of South Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach) and the tourist magnet of Orlando.
The authority's board has commissioned a study to "explore options for terminal enhancements and possible terminal replacement," the authority said, with an eye toward constructing new bus staging areas and storage facilities that could limit the scourge of idling buses on city streets.
When was the last time you saw someone idling in the city?
So this year let us offer new hope, new hope to an America uncertain about the present, but unsurpassed in its potential for the future.To all those who are idle in the cities and industries of America let us provide new hope for the dignity of useful work.
In a city of idle or semi-idle factories, this still sounds ambitious.
And the idle workers from this city's automotive plants will be key to the success of these new industries.
Strangely, the haze has a way of bringing problems into sharp focus--not just pollution itself, but the climate change it accelerates, and the poverty made worse by these desperate conditions, the endless traffic jams of idle motors circling the city.
