Critics were especially concerned about traffic crunches when the Academy Museum hosts special events, such as film premieres in the 1,000-seat 1,000-seat sphericalgh cinema it will build next to the museum that will be carved out of the 1939-vintage former May Co. department store at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.
To create a day-by-day look at the city's traffic, officials crunched GPS information from nearly every yellow taxi trip taken in Manhattan's business district — from 60th Street to the Battery — between November 2008 and October 2009.
But Mr. Cumming cautioned that some merchants and residents were growing unhappy about disruption of business and traffic and the crunch on parking space, especially as publicity drew more and more people downtown.
With no fatalities and only one minor injury, residents still lamented the parking crunch and traffic tie-ups caused by the blaze.
While Mr. Bush might consider modernizing the Federal Aviation Administration and relieving the staffing crunch in air traffic control that has caused an enraging increase in flight delays, Mr. Gore would probably not, she said.
Previously publishing companies have mostly focused on enhancing the content they share on their own social networks and increasingly hiring social media specialists to help them drive traffic to their posts (Tech Crunch recently brought on social media expert Travis Bernard).
Clusters have all but replaced the expensive "big iron" supercomputers of just a few years ago and are useful in applications that require massive number crunching: weather forecasting, traffic simulations, deciphering the human genome and modeling the birth of stars, to name just a few.
It crunched the holiday traffic data and found that the best time to leave for your trip is Thanksgiving morning.
3G networks are reaching a capacity crunch and wi-fi could offload traffic and offer a vastly superior overall throughput," said a Virgin Media spokesman.
IBM will then crunch all the data to help planners control traffic and decide where to build more roads.The Nairobi lab is expected to earn its keep quickly.
This proposal, which happened in the midst of a state budget crunch and in response to high levels of traffic congestion in the county, was supported by the County Council but largely ignored by incoming Governor Martin O'Malley.
