That was but one of many slowdowns during a long, trouble-plagued race that saw innumerable spins on rain-doused pavement, car-to-car crashes and further replacements of damaged barriers.
"In my head, I'd be telling pedestrians to just keep walking along the pavement, cars to continue on their side of the road, dogs not to run out in front of me".
Over time it became far less pleasant to walk than it had been, as pedestrians negotiated an increasingly narrow strip of pavement with car traffic on one side and parking lots on the other.
They pushed for different rubber tires, quieter pavements, and car mufflers.
Basically, any place that has pavement and cars is a potential market.
All day long, they sit in tiny, makeshift plastic shelters on the highway pavement, awaiting cars driving down from Delhi.
Geothermal water is used to heat around 90% of Iceland's homes, and keeps pavements and car parks snow-free in the winter.
Gradually, as if guided by a system of hidden pulleys beneath the pavement, the cars glided south through the Sunday twilight, carrying their occupants to the next show, Derek Lam's, at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park.
I would like to see more respect between all road users: cyclists are using the pavement because cars are parked on cycling lanes and it can be very annoying.
While many digital devices like desktop and laptop computers and smartphones are already connected to the internet, the core idea of the IoT is to expand this capability for networking to practically every object which we use: from tiles on the pavement to cars on the street, and from the kitchen sink and smoke detector in our houses right down to the lowly toothbrush and hair comb.
Horses are often forced to labor in freezing and sweltering temperatures while walking on hard pavement, dodging cars, and inhaling exhaust fumes.
