new york city -being traffic engineer

after chicago, we flew to new york city. we flew into la guardia airport. it was good coz it wasn't crowded. unfortunately, we had to stay at queens. to be fair, the subway was really convenient albeit it was unlike the singapore or hong kong subway. it was less well lit and much older..they are like what you saw in tv.
i spent my first day at a traffic centre. jake's decided to bring me with him to meet his business contact. so i was 'traffic engineer' for nearly half a day. :P i pretend to be super interested at the traffic system. one cool thing was i could see traffic at times square from the control centre.
L:R the DOT 's numerous screens;funny how they call it air circulator when it is a fan; the server room; emergency response room they even have the news channel constantly on, CNN wasn't their choice of news channel; the system used by the operator in the emergency response room; NYC DOT logo;chart of every traffic light available on Manhattan; the bigger screens of the streets around;in walters suv, passing by one of the bridges; another view of the bridges;NYC has so many bridges, i donno which one is which; their EZ pass system you instal the 'machine' in your car and your car get scanned each time you past the bridge/tunnel; streets in Manhattan; some tunnels we are in; the great mural across the restaurant where i had my fabulous steak; 5th avenue pre christmas time.



at night walter and wife brought us around manhattan. we had dinner at this upbeat restaurant. and walter drove us around in his wife's SUV showing us the bridges, traffic system. i lost count of the number of bridges that we crossed. traffic was really jammed ...
we were on 5th avenue in the SUV and it must have took us 1 hour to get from one end to the other. it would be faster for us to be on our feet.