It's Wednesday, you deserve a treat, like an episode of the Hell Gate Podcast! Listen here or watch here.
If you're a reporter in New York City trying to interview drivers about the solutions to congestion during some of the most gridlocked days of the whole year, it is surprisingly easy to find your quarry.
By 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Second Avenue near 57th Street had turned into a parking lot—we stopped our timer at 11 minutes before the cars moved a few feet. Two SUVs, one of them with diplomatic plates, pulled out of the line of traffic and sped south in the bike lane. Cyclists screamed at the cops standing around to do something. None of them did. "This is madness," one NYPD officer said to his partner.