Friday, December 19. 2008

NY Pothole Map Not Good Enough for Judge

Back in the day, getting money out of NYC for slips and trips on uneven pavement or potholes was pretty easy. Too easy. So the city passed a law stating payment would not be made unless the hazard was communicated to the city 15 days prior to the accident. Enter the lawyers, specifically the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. They started the "Pothole Map" and paid for people to document the hazards. When the city would not accept the map as communication, the lawyers sued and won. But now, a judge isn't convinced; when the mark on map doesn't accurately match the situation on the street, he's ready to deny claims.

- NYTimes CityRoom Blog

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Giant Inauguration Map Wows Reporters

"How do you plan for an event that some are calling the largest in U.S. history? You get a map that's almost as big as the city itself.

Okay, that's an exaggeration.But at a morning news conference, the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee showed reporters a 40-foot-by-40-foot map that they are using to plan for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration Jan. 20, going over things as diverse as security to portable toilets to video screens."

That's the description from the Washington Post article that accompanies pictures of photographers taking pictures of the map. I'm glad I'll be watching from a distance.

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