In particular, he has set about tackling the eternal city's eternal problems: traffic and red tape.
The show started with clothes in camel, black and gray but these immediately gave way to oversized leopard print sweaters, a short suit in traffic light red and a wispy blue dress with a cutaway hem that was paired with drainpipe trousers.
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The combination of new bus lanes, longer red traffic lights and more pedestrian crossings inevitably means more delays for drivers.
One victim, Angela Singh, was driving with her two young sons in Leeds when a police car hit them after going through a red traffic light.
Somewhere in the Second Arrondissement, a traffic light turned red.
The traffic layer, which lights up in red, yellow and green depending on the amount of traffic, also was particularly helpful on the way back to New York.
Europe's flag carriers were also heading into the red as transatlantic traffic slowed.
And while it occasionally failed to pick up on congested stretches, on several occasions it was so accurate as to the emergence of traffic that the route turned red just as conditions forced the car to slow to a crawl.
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The Traffic gage pop-up informs with a green, yellow, and red meter and disappears within a few seconds, indicating how the traffic situation is on the route ahead.
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But even that didn't help Frank Carfaro, who was red-faced after a traffic-stopping stunt he planned to hype his Manhattan design studio, Desiron.
In total, the process will require three weeks of multi-state trips at speeds as low as 5 miles per hour, weaving through traffic, negotiating bridges and weaving around red tape.
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If you see a flurry of red brake lights, you know traffic is not moving.
Last year, he announced plans to classify the performance of English hospital trusts using a simple traffic-light system of green, amber and red.
Mr Spicer said the potential of a slip had been identified during the period of sustained bad weather, and traffic lights on the stretch had been switched to red to prevent any danger to road users.
Routes for which Dash has available information are marked with either green, yellow or red lines depending on the heaviness of the traffic.
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Crossing Bloomsbury Street, just by the British Museum, it can often take southbound traffic up to ten minutes to get through a single red light.
Some retailers and manufactures have preferred a "traffic light" system in which the least healthy foods are labelled red and the most healthy are in green.
You will have your own favourites, but I always liked the Traffic Light Tree in London's Docklands, a bewildering display of red, amber and green which kept me waiting, transfixed and tense, for really quite some time when I first encountered it.
The checkered flag is currently tied up in red tape: If ISC gets through the hoops of impact hearings on traffic and the environment, it could break ground in late 2008 and open by 2011.
"Tracking the puck through traffic, you can't get that in practice as a goaltender, " Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard said.
And that's why the endeavor required a pair of 600-horsepower push-and-pull trucks, along with dozens of workers leading and following to displace and restore countless traffic lights, utility poles and the occasional pesky palm tree to make way for the shiny red caravan.
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Once out in traffic, I appreciated how the electric motor assistance gave me the necessary speed to keep up with the red double-decker buses.
Dedicated lanes give buses an uncongested path, and traffic-signal priority gives buses the power, once reserved for emergency vehicles, to switch signals from red to green as they approach.
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