Serena Tara reports A Cat Went Viral for Escaping His Carrier & Roaming Freely on a Plane: Brian had had enough of sitting around in the plane, so he went for a walk. Except, he wasn’t technically allowed to do so. In this scenario, in fact, Brian is a gray-and-white cat, and during a JetBlue…
Transportation
Accidents, City, Common Council, Local Government, State Government, Transportation
Common Council, 8.20.19: Misperception
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
A portion of Wisconsin [U.S.] Highway 12 rings Whitewater. Called by residents simply the bypass, it takes traffic around the city, with a few points of intersection to Whitewater along the route. A traffic signal at one of those intersections has had its own green light for a left-hand turning lane, and this likely causes…
Government Spending, Transportation
New Construction and Old Repairs
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
One reads from Patty Murray of Wisconsin Public Radio that 1,054 of State’s Bridges Need Repair: Wisconsin has 14,275 bridges. Of those, 1,054 — or 7.4 percent — have been deemed structurally deficient in a new report. According to the report issued by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, the state has identified necessary repairs on 1,955 bridges in Wisconsin…
Bad Ideas, CDA, City, Development, Economics, Economy, Government Spending, Local Government, Poverty, State Capitalism, State Government, That Which Paved the Way, Transportation
Private Businesses Craving Public Money
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
A private group may invite whom it wishes, but the guests invited tell much about the organization doing the inviting. Long years ago, straining even the finest recollection, private businesses relied on their own efforts for success (or so one has heard). Look about now, even in small and struggling places, and one finds well-fed…
Economy, Federal Government, Never Trump, Transportation, Trump
Commerce Slows
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Update, Friday afternoon: Trump folds under pressure agrees to a three-week re-opening of the federal gov’t. Of his Rose Garden address this afternoon (one that I watched in full), Jennifer Rubin observes “[m]aybe this is part of an insanity defense for the Russia probe.” One reads that under the shutdown, interstate commerce now slows: Significant…
Transportation
If the Next Administration is Serious About Infrastructure, It Will Privatize Airports
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Talk about a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending from the next administration isn’t the answer, in particular, to many of America’s transportation problems. Privatizing airports, as Robert W. Poole Jr. and Chris Edwards propose, would be more useful than vast sums on make-work projects of dubious value to anyone except big campaign contributors and connected…