Wednesday, March 29, 2006

I don't feel like writing, but here's just one thing: I'm really tired of squeezing myself and Marta between cars parked on sidewalks. I take pictures of some of them now, to calm myself down.

The city's not ready for so many cars, and I don't really blame the drivers - even though I can't pretend I don't hate them. I wonder if the new mayor (Chernovetsky, most likely) is planning to do something about it.





4 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:08 AM, March 30, 2006

    i dream of one of those mad max kind of knife-out-of-weel things )))

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  2. Stefan1:19 AM, March 30, 2006

    Hey Neeka,

    Here's a quote frmo RFE/RL that I thought your Mishah might appreciate vis-a-vis his comment that you posted below, problematizing the notion that Ukraine is divided along an East-West axis: "Ukraine now appears to be split not two ways geographically, as before, but three -- with the west voting for Yushchenko, the center for Tymoshenko, and the east for Yanukovych." As he said, you've got the proOrange center and west, and the dissenting East. Full article: http://rferl.com/featuresarticle/2006/03/4f02418a-9ef4-4f18-b231-8220c170c5dc.html

    Also, I have a Ukrainian-Canadian acquaintance who's lived in Kyiv off and on for years; he (Volodymyr Kish) writes a weekly column for Novyj Shlakh of Toronto, where he has more than once ranted and railed about cars parked on the sidewalks.

    I never thought much about the matter before, but you've provided a perspective that I can definitely appreciate: what a pain in the ass it would be indeed to go about with a stroller on car-clogged sidewalks!

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  3. Anonymous1:20 AM, March 30, 2006

    Pretty nice cars for an impoverished nation!

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  4. Anonymous11:26 AM, March 30, 2006

    I can only hope for your sake, Marta's and mine that Chernovetskiy won't apply his alleged previous methodology, i.e. thinning out the ranks of pedestrians.

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