Madison’s Common Council voted to reconfigure N. Sherman Ave from a four-lane to a two-way with a center left turn lane. During the testimony, several issues were raised by opponents, and rehashed later on talk radio that I would like to fact-check for posterity.
So-called “Progressive” talk show host John “Sly” Sylvester doubled down on the “Cars First” rhetoric last Friday, flipping his rationale from “because we pay for the roads” to “because there are more of us and we are bigger.” But is such a power-based rationale really representative of someone who claims to be a Progressive? Hell [...]
Stridently declaring that “Cars come first!”, WTDY Progressive Talk host John ‘Sly’ Sylvester issued a litany of unfounded justifications for treating bike path users as second-class citizens, while questioning the motives of city traffic engineers and city workers in general as being part of a conspiracy to deliver poor service for automobile enthusiasts. Sly’s key [...]
The record-setting heat we have been experiencing this week may actually help convince Republicans to change their stance on global warming. It is not the number of deaths and hospital visits caused by the heat that will convince them. Same goes for the poor being unable to find a safe place to hang out during [...]
It seems I have stirred up a bit of a hornet’s nest over on Facebook in a thread about the beautiful mural being painted by Panmela Castro on the western Wall of the Willy Street Co-op. The mural is gorgeous, replacing a sterile beige cinderblock wall with a broad golden ribbon, strands of crimson, and [...]
With this being a leap-year, and the great day fast approaching, I hereby declare February 29th as “Complain about alternative transportation day.” So how about it? You’ve got a whole extra day this year. Why not spend 20 minutes of it harshing your elected officials about how hard it is for you to walk, [...]
I have a problem with the way Mayor Soglin seems to be framing the issue of how to improve Ride the Drive. When the Mayor talks about the situation, he portrays it as a tension between the fun of the ride and a 20-45% loss in parking ramp revenue and business. But Ride the Drive [...]
From the City of Middleton:
The Northside bus transfer point. Seriously. Here’s why. Alder Bridget Maniaci, the Mullins, the Economic Development Director, etc etc etc I’ll let you see for youreself. When the Mayor’s office sent out the message saying that tomorrow the bus stop would move to E Wash, Alder Manaici at 2 am sent out a message to [...]
The slow news week continues, so I have to make my own . . . luckily I have some material you won’t be reading about in the paper, yet. SUSTAINABLE AG ON COUNTY BOARD AGENDA TONIGHTThe county moved at a city pace on this one, but it was well worth the wait! IT’S OFFICIAL!First “This [...]
The only story that ends up in my google reader to pass along to you. But the story is more about what you don’t see. One might think this was some kind of April Fools joke. From: Harmon, RaySent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:06 PMTo: ALL ALDERSSubject: Dear Alders- I wanted to let you know [...]
