What Happens If There’s a Blackout in NYC? – THE CITY

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What Happens If There’s a Blackout in NYC? – THE CITY

A peak summer day in past years, he noted, would result in a usage of about 13,000 megawatts of power in the five boroughs and Westchester. Demand for power during the current heat wave reached a peak of 11,730 megawatts on Monday afternoon.t

Still, residential demand has surged. A recent study by Columbia University’s Earth Institute reported “substantial increases” of around 23% of weekday New York City residential electricity consumption during the shutdown.

In May, Con Ed blamed a potential rate increase on increased residential demand as work-from-home becomes the norm. A typical city residential customer using 350 kilowatt hours per month could expect a 9.5% hike, from about $99 in 2019 to nearly $109 per month this summer, the utility said.

Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things – Atlas Obscura

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Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things – Atlas Obscura

Train conductors, drivers and station staff play an important role in the safe and efficient operation of the lines; a key aspect of which is the variety of physical gestures and vocal calls that they perform while undertaking their duties. While these might strike visitors as silly, the movements and shouts are a Japanese-innovated industrial safety method known as pointing-and-calling; a system that reduces workplace errors by up to 85 percent.

NY 10 from Arietta to Piseco is the most odd road.

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NY 10 from Arietta to Piseco is the most odd road. 🚗

It’s a modern road with well banked curves, smooth surfaces, fairly wide lanes, decent sight distance and tight curves.

It is built to modern engineering standards, bar the curves.

It was built around 1980 from an earlier dirt road, so it uses all the knowledge and standards gained through construction of the interstate highways. Some sections are comfortable to drive at ordinary highway speeds. But other places have incredibly sharp curves, despite the banking.

The reason comes down to a lot of the road runs through forest preserve. Any change to the routing required removal from the extremely limited highway safety land bank in the Adirondack Forest Preserve or a constitutional amendment. So the NYS DOT, at least through the forest preserve continued the original routing as much as possible through the forest preserve while only making relatively minor changes outside of the preserve.