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SCOUT

This morning, a few days after seeing a Google Street Maps car (massive camera attached) in the West Village, I saw another odd vehicle: One of those little Grumman things the police use (though apparently they’re going to get some BMWs, but this one had flashing lights and, displayed prominently along the side, “Street Condition Observation Unit,” with a jaunty acronym SCOUT. It was the first I had seen of it, though it’s apparently been around a while. As it happens, it was sitting in a chunk of bike lane on Union Street that’s been worn away for a number of months. Speaking of worn-away bike lanes, what happened to the strip on the Brooklyn Bridge walkway? What’s the lifespan of striping in NYC anyway? Idle thoughts for a Friday afternoon…

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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

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