Layer on the unpredictable traffic and electricity, and every day is like pulling a "Chance" card.
On the main roads, though, it doesn't matter: bumper-to-bumper traffic and electricity brown-outs affect everyone equally.
In the city, the Cayenne Hybrid can cover short distances — I managed roughly a mile in heavy Manhattan traffic — on electricity alone.
From the gas pipes that run beneath it to the traffic lights, electricity supply and even the newspaper office and internet service provider, never a day goes by when the city is not being bombarded.
The idea that traffic and electricity use might be related makes sense: when you turn the lights and stereo on and off indicates when you're home to stay, when you're sleeping, when you're likely to leave for work or return, and so on.
The storm's rapid intensification caught most residents on the island off-guard, with widespread disruptions to traffic and electricity taking place.
The problems include employment (and unemployment), housing, traffic congestion, electricity supply, water supply, sewerage and waste disposal".
The problems include employment (and unemployment), housing, traffic congestion, electricity supply, water supply, sewerage and waste disposal".44 (This is in sharp contrast to newly industrialized countries (NICs) in Asia where urbanization has increased in line with employment opportunities).
The New York Power Authority is planning to play traffic cop for electricity.
Demonstrators burned tires, blocked traffic or pelted electricity company officials with stones.
