Google's new map's features include buildings, roads, subway stations, parks and some of the countless monuments to the country's ruling Kim dynasty.
These range from the closing of public schools to the direction of public pension money into hedge funds and other alternative investment accounts to the privatization of parking meters, roads, subway cards, school maintenance and other pieces of the city's infrastructure.
They can take some of the strain off overcrowded roads, subways and railroad lines.
LONDON — A fierce winter snowstorm crippled London's roads, subways and buses and all but shut down many parts of Britain on Monday.
Columbia and a coalition led by New York University want to build in more urban settings, hemmed in by roads, subways and buildings, with less flexibility and space for parks or solar panels.
Another is that we now have an archaic and grotesquely wasteful federal system in which upkeep for roads, subways, housing, public parkland and our water supply are all handled separately.
After all, who needs public roads, subways, housing, hospitals, schools, and the police department when the rich can buy all those services privately?
While our roads, subways, water supply, electricity, and other staples of life are still in decent shape, it would take only a handful of large funding shocks for all of that to sink into disrepair, and eventually into meaninglessness; and if we go down the path that the GOP wants us to, this is exactly what will happen within a few decades.
The surge covered 17% of the city's land and flooded road and subway tunnels.
While accommodations have been made — bridges, a ring road, a subway system, a bus network — they have not kept pace with the city's growth.
The estimated price tag for the Mets' stadium is $800 million, not including $100 million in road and subway improvements that the team has asked the state to make.
