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Opinion
In
1826, John Quinsy Adams, the president of the United States, was
asked about the freedom of
the
press. He responded "It wasn't in the past, it isn't now,
but I sure hope it will be in the future".
Subway
barriers: New
York, NY February 6, 2026 With falling and being pushed onto the
subway tracks becoming a daily occurrence, it is time to promptly
install subway barriers / gates on all 480 subway and elevated
stations. Frank Didik, who has been desperately pushing subway gates
to the MTA and other agencies since over a decade points out that
hundreds of people could have been saved over this period of time.
Further, thousands of people could have been spared hideous, life
transforming injuries, including by MTA workers. Further, the MTA
could have avoided paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in
liability, that could have already paid for the entire subway gate system.
Subway
Safety-Subway Gate Every year hundreds of people are
killed or severely injured when they fall onto the tracks of trains
and subways. The prevention is cost efficient and greatly reduces liability ...
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more ...
Greatly
reduce train noise A significant
amount of train noise is caused by the train wheels rolling over the
expansion joint of the tracks. This vibration creates noise,
vibrations, an less pleasant ride and also reduces the life cycle of
the train. The solution is relatively simple and cost effective..read
more
Frank
X. Didik with former NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio and first lady Chirlane
McCray, at Gracy Mansion. Former
Mayor DeBlasio served two terms in office and then as per term
limits, had to leave office at the end of his second term. Mr
DeBlasio original birth name (May 8, 1961) was Warren Wilhelm Jr. and
later used the name Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm and then finally adapted
his mother's maiden name DeBlasio and today is commonly known as Bill
DeBlasio. Mr.DeBlasio was succeeded as mayor on Jnuary 1st, 2022 by
Mayor Eric Adams, who himself was succeeded as mayor by Zohan
Mamdani,wo became New York City's 111 mayor.
Film
Vs Digital
A Fuji 6x9 (2 1/4 x 3 x 1/4) film camera with many
rolls of Fuji Velvia 50 film, which sadly is very hard to buy today. Fuji
Claims that the finished positive (slide) film will
last up to 100 years.
Trans Global Highway
When completed, the Trans Global Highway will link all continents
together by road, rail, Mag-Lev, water pipelines, communication
cables, oil and gas pipelines. The benefits for the whole planet are
amazing. For more information, go to the TransGlobalHighway.com
official website.
Cell
Phone Etiquette
Advice for the modern person -
December 9,
2016 read
more
Time
to Rethink Bike Lanes
Advice for bicyle based cities
- August
3,
2016 read
more
Congestion
Pricing favors the upper income people and has reduced
local business, while pushing middle class drivers to shop elsewhere
that does not have this burdensome tax. Ultimately this will work
against the city. New York City has 25% less cars than ten years ago.
This is partly do to a decline in real income but also because bike
lanes, which are under-utilized in the winter and bad weather, has
made driving in NYC slower because of the reduced number of lanes.
The sensors that bill vehicles, are only at the entrance points in
Manhattan and thus can only bill incoming cars, not cars already in
Manhattan. Thus, presently, only outsiders will be billed for tolls.
New York City is ONE CITY, consisting of Manhattan (Borough of New
York), Brooklyn (Kings), Queens, Staten Island (Richmond) and the
Bronx. Shouldn't every New Yorker have free access to all parts of
the city? Didn't the unification of Brooklyn with Manhattan in 1897
specify this as being one city?
It is time
for the New York City to take action to control bicycles Lets
face it, the quality of life in New York City is suffering
from bicycles, electric powered bikes and scooters. The riders feel
that they are above the law or don't even know the law. These vehicle
almost without exception, never obey traffic laws, go through red
lights and even go through crosswalks while people are crossing. It
is time to start requiring all bicycles to have registration, and
clearly visible license plates, and insurance. If cars and trucks
have to "share the road" with bicycles, bicycles must also
pay their fair share and obey the law. read
more
Share
the road: This NYC sign says "Share the road".
Good idea! Perhaps it is time for bicycle riders to obey traffic laws
and also pay a road tax, just as the car drivers have to do. Indeed,
share the road!
App based taxi ride services often block traffic
traffic while picking up customers. read
more
Vision
Zero is without vision. Is the well
intended Vision Zero New York City program started under former Mayor
DeBlasio to reduce pedestrian deaths from vehicles working? Some of
the actions taken was to reduce the speed limit in NYC from 30 miles
per hour to only 25 miles per hour. In addition, when the cross walk
light says walk, the traffic light for cars changes a few seconds
later, allowing pedestrians to start to cross before cars start. In
some areas, there has also been guides put on streets so that cars
must make a larger diameter turn. Has these measures work? Actually
these measures have not helped at all. Our speculation as to why
these measures have not worked are as follows. The crossing
pedestrians have come to take it for granted that the cars will
always allow them to cross and unfortunately, the pedestrians do not
look both ways. Further, many pedestrians are oblivious to their
surroundings because they are staring at their smart phones and do
not take a moment to carefully look to see if all is clear to cross
and also many pedestrians wear ear buds playing music or talking on
the phone that further reduces their attention to traffic. It should
be noted that many years ago, the brother of this writer was hit and
killed by a car.
Fact
Checkers "Fact Checkers" present an opinion
rather than absolute fact. Further,
who will fact check the fact checkers"? Recently read
more
Sunglasses
Dangerous?
Sunglasses
reduces reaction time, since it takes
longer for the brain to process a darker image then a well lit image.
This could lead to potentially dangerous situations. Some early
Stereo 3D systems used a dark glass and a lighter glass for two
different eyes to achieve the 3D effect, though polarized glasses are
more common. Tinted windows in cars also increase reaction time of
the drivers.
Digital
Currency
will represent a loss of freedom and privacy. Digital
Currency will mean the total control of your money by the government.
Thus what you (are permitted to) buy will be under the complete
control of the government. Further, everything you do and buy will be
known to the government and anyone who has access to this
information. Thus everything that you buy or sell or are permitted to
buy or sell will be known and potentially controlled.
-April 11, 2023
NEWS1.net
911 plus 25
years
On September 11,
2001, Frank X. Didik, the Chairman of the News1 Corporation, was in
lower Manhattan and took hundreds of photographs on both film and
digital cameras as well as live video on video cameras of that period.
In honor of the 2,700 plus people who died that day and an
additional close to 3,000 people who died over the years from
diseases stemming from the toxins released that day, we are again
showing some of the raw images from that day. Included also is one of
the very first eye witness chronological accounts of the events of
that day. That quickly written chronology was read around the world
and became the bases of many of the 911 stories. Many of Mr. Didik's
photographs ended up in the official 911 report on the 7 World Trade
Center collapse.
WORLD TRADE CENTER
Photographs and text covering the September 11,
2001 horror.
September
11, 2001 These
dramatic photographs cover the street action around the WTC and
lower Manhattan and downtown Brooklyn. Includes collapse of WTC-7,
dust everywhere, local residents, road blocks, dramatic sun setting
for the for the first time in years, without the Trade Center and
more. Also provides text captions describing each scene.
September
11, 2001 other
non-captioned photographs shot on the day the World Trade Center was destroyed.
September
12, and 13 2001 These
images are captioned. see below for other, non-captioned photographs.
September
12, 2001 non-captioned
photo's. Contains many images of the Manhattan skyline from Brooklyn
Heights, downtown Brooklyn and various shots in lower Manhattan.
Includes distant shots of the WTC still smoking. Also includes sunset
shots of the new skyline.
September
13 non-captioned
photo's contains: Union Square memorial rally, Budist Monks praying,
injured police officer, wanted leaflets, military and police check
points, deserted streets in Manhattan, people wearing masks, day to
day scenes. Of interest to anyone publishing on the aftermaths of the
Trade Center horror.
September
16, 2001 Contains
photographs of crushed police vehicle, fall out dust on fruit stand,
Union Square at night, stunning sunset of Manhattan (shot from
Brooklyn) but without the WTC, National Guard patrolling the streets
and others. If you require captioning, please email us
for further captioning details on any of the photographs.
September
17, 2001 Contains
photographs of lower Manhattan along Broadway, tragic sight of car
who's owner clearly will not be returning to move car, various
memorials and signs.
September
21, 2001 Complete
view of Broadway from Chambers Street almost all of the way to the
Battery. Shows emergency construction and the general state of the
City at that point. Also, images of various memorials and military
and police patrols.
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