the guardian
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That Time New York City Almost Banned Cars
The public plaza and bike lanes now found throughout New York City have affectionately become known to detractors as the “war on cars”. But amazingly, a 1973 plan got very, very close to banning cars in Manhattan outright, thanks to a man known as “Gridlock Sam”.
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Turns Out The Report That Whisper Tracks Users Was Mostly Super Wrong
Last year, anonymous secret-sharing app Whisper got chewed out for tracking its users in a brutal expose from The Guardian. Only now, months later, The Guardian is back-pedalling harder than a spin class devotee on many of its accusations against Whisper.