down the pike

R.E.M.’s manager Bertis Downs said in an email, “The guys were all big Buster Keaton fans well before this left-field idea came down the pike.”

“It’s just a injustice. There is no accountability. They need to be made examples of. Everyone knew that the virus was coming down the pike. You don’t contaminate people. There are basic things you don’t do and they were done there because their leadership sucked.”

Big investments in reducing emissions from the transportation sector — which makes up the bulk of the state’s greenhouse gas pollution — are also coming down the pike.

Because execs shelved or paused a substantial number of projects during the pandemic, and two major labor strikes last year pushed even more releases down the pike, there are simply not enough new movies coming out to lure people back.

“The government is entitled to see what threats are possibly coming down the pike.”