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Politics Failed, but Fuel Prices Cut Congestion
“…Still, the new numbers do bolster a central point of the Bloomberg plan: that higher prices can motivate commuters to give up their cars.” But the MTA gets nothing, whereas it would get Congestion Pricing revenues.
Update: Streetsblog wonders how much of the congestion cut cited in the article is due to toll increases instead of gas prices. Additionally they ask, “which tool for cutting traffic is more desirable: a ‘market-driven’ gasoline price rise that enriches the owners of petroleum, or a socially-decided road-pricing policy whose revenues would be available to improve transit.”
Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Government's Cell-Phone Tracking
UI Improvement for Scrolling in iPhone 2.0 Software
From the iPhone 3G guided tour video, which also notes improvements owners of the current iPhone will see in the iPhone 2.0 software: “When you’re at the bottom of a long web page, a list of contacts, an SMS conversation, or your inbox, just tap the status bar to jump to the top” (at 9:28).
“Status bar” refers to the bar at the top of the screen with the clock, data network indicator, phone service indicator, &c. This is a welcome improvement; I’ve found myself doing a lot of scrolling on web pages in MobileSafari when one “flick” is not enough to bring me back to the top. (And the top is where a user needs to go to enter a new URL or search term.)
Update: rit notes that this works in MobileSafari with the current iPhone software. It does not seem to work elsewhere (SMS conversations, mailboxes, contact lists) yet.