MARCH
20, 2004 --
LPR
did not catch the first episode of "Century City," the
CBS series about a law firm in 2030. Bernard Weintraub, in the
TV magazine of the New York Times, March 14-20, quoted Ed (no relation
to LPR) Zuckerman that because of the future setting, the program
could not go into the streets. (Mr. Zuckerman is one of the program's
executive producers).
LPR's
experience is that TV shows do not receive ideas from plain citizens.
Herewith, then, LPR's vision of New York streets in 2030. There
will be no cars, certainly not parked curbside on Manhattan streets.
The curb space will be given entirely over to buses -- and all
the Law & Order programs. And here is a law case for 2030.
The
executor of a deceased motorist is fighting a city lien based on
a seatbelt violation. The motorist was driving over to a police
officer to ask directions, when his car was struck by chunks of
concrete from a Manhattan high-rise. The police officer noticed,
after the smoke cleared, that the hands of the deceased were on
an open seatbelt. Accordingly, he served the deceased with a seatbelt
violation, which in 2030 dollars, called for a fine of $400 and
a surcharge of $1,000. The executor is challenging this demand.
The
streets of Manhattan in 2030 would show pedestrians wearing required
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