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Sep. 22nd, 2005 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
*watches news footage of people trying to get out of Houston*
*counts the number of Hudson and East River crossings*
*compares to number of Manhattanites*
Should the island of Manhattan have to be evacuated, in all likelihood Jersey City would have to go, too. There is no way that the local motor vehicle traffic infrastructure is designed to handle that many people all leaving at once.
On the other hand, all those cars trying to get onto the mainland and away from the city probably wouldn't be able to move very far or very fast. So as long as there was sidewalk available, I could almost certainly get over US 1's truck-route bridge into Newark, because no one would be able to kill me except by opening a car door at the wrong time.
Saddlebags on back wheel, bags mounted on front wheel, basket mounted on handlebars, bungee cords for the rear wheel carrier rack... I could get a respectable amount out of the city on Wanda. Granted, some of the space would be lost to my cats. But still.
Must buy saddlebags, if only for touring purposes. And grocery shopping.
*counts the number of Hudson and East River crossings*
*compares to number of Manhattanites*
Should the island of Manhattan have to be evacuated, in all likelihood Jersey City would have to go, too. There is no way that the local motor vehicle traffic infrastructure is designed to handle that many people all leaving at once.
On the other hand, all those cars trying to get onto the mainland and away from the city probably wouldn't be able to move very far or very fast. So as long as there was sidewalk available, I could almost certainly get over US 1's truck-route bridge into Newark, because no one would be able to kill me except by opening a car door at the wrong time.
Saddlebags on back wheel, bags mounted on front wheel, basket mounted on handlebars, bungee cords for the rear wheel carrier rack... I could get a respectable amount out of the city on Wanda. Granted, some of the space would be lost to my cats. But still.
Must buy saddlebags, if only for touring purposes. And grocery shopping.
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