Bloomberg contest sees a role for pay phones
Photo credit: Getty Images | People walk by empty public pay phone booths in New York. (April 09, 2012)
Pay phones may be going the way of the eight-track tape and are more useful for superheroes who need a quick place to change, but the mayor says there's still a place for them in the 21st century.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications launched the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge Wednesday, asking urban designers, policy experts...