I don’t mean toll booths per se, but more like the things on the Palisades entrance to the GWB. The overhead things you mention. They take up less room, but they take up some room. There wasn’t room for even these on the brooklyn bridge
I’ll see if I can find a source. I’m on a call (not that that should stop me)
As you pointed out, heat rises. It rises out of open skylights. Alternatively, one can use shades on skylights to keep out the sun/heat. And the incremental increase in energy for the two months a year one really needs air conditioning is more than offset by the energy saved in using less lights. Now I officially give up.
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Skylights will provide more sun in your home and being on the top floor and we all know heat rises, therefore probably increasing your use of air conditioning.
oh but im SURE he will have state of the art Green technology air conditioning that runs on angel farts.
Well, Biff, I may sound like a dinosaur in my thinking about biking, but I don’t think of biking as a serious transportation alternative. I think that building up mass transit is our major hope where our key problems with energy are. And maybe we are evolving into an street/highway system more like Europe where bikes and cars seem to inhabit the same roads with more order. If so, I think we have a way to go to make it work better, be safer, etc. I think that what we have now is utter chaos.
“They are closing the Brooklyn Bridge at night for 4 years to widen the approaches so they can add tollbooths (or, for “painting” if you believe that).
The reason the East River crossings don’t have tolls is because it’s physically impossible and they want to do all bridges at once. But wait.. they are getting there.”
Source?
FYI, the city doesn’t need to add toll booths to institute tolls. They can use an electronic late-scanning system, like the ones currently in use in several U.S. cities.
No Biff – you see that both Dona and I replied with thoughtful responses that would make a bike rider think twice
please – do reply!
I don’t mean toll booths per se, but more like the things on the Palisades entrance to the GWB. The overhead things you mention. They take up less room, but they take up some room. There wasn’t room for even these on the brooklyn bridge
I’ll see if I can find a source. I’m on a call (not that that should stop me)
ET, are you really that thick?
As you pointed out, heat rises. It rises out of open skylights. Alternatively, one can use shades on skylights to keep out the sun/heat. And the incremental increase in energy for the two months a year one really needs air conditioning is more than offset by the energy saved in using less lights. Now I officially give up.
late=plate
“we all know heat rises, therefore probably increasing your use of air conditioning.” — especially from all his hot air.
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Skylights will provide more sun in your home and being on the top floor and we all know heat rises, therefore probably increasing your use of air conditioning.
oh but im SURE he will have state of the art Green technology air conditioning that runs on angel farts.
*rob*
I give up. It’s like trying to teach nuclear physics to a bed bug. Carry on…
Well, Biff, I may sound like a dinosaur in my thinking about biking, but I don’t think of biking as a serious transportation alternative. I think that building up mass transit is our major hope where our key problems with energy are. And maybe we are evolving into an street/highway system more like Europe where bikes and cars seem to inhabit the same roads with more order. If so, I think we have a way to go to make it work better, be safer, etc. I think that what we have now is utter chaos.
“They are closing the Brooklyn Bridge at night for 4 years to widen the approaches so they can add tollbooths (or, for “painting” if you believe that).
The reason the East River crossings don’t have tolls is because it’s physically impossible and they want to do all bridges at once. But wait.. they are getting there.”
Source?
FYI, the city doesn’t need to add toll booths to institute tolls. They can use an electronic late-scanning system, like the ones currently in use in several U.S. cities.