Cracking the Conservative Transportation Frame
With a promised audit of WISDOT in the works, now is a good time to reflect on how conservatives on Wisconsin’s joint audit committee...
The Purpose of Ride the Drive
I have a problem with the way Mayor Soglin seems to be framing the issue of how to improve Ride the Drive. When the...
So Far State Officials Can’t Prove Roads Grow Economy
If you have been reading my recent posts at Forward Lookout, you are aware that I have been sending out a series of open...
A Beautiful Mural on an Ugly Canvas
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...
$25 State Bike Fee Possible
A followup question from Rep. Nygren to the DOT about raising fees on bicyclists has been answered in a recent Legislative Fiscal Bureau Paper...
GOP Bickers Over Zoo Interchange, Ped, Bike Funding Still in Flux
While Wisconsin’s mainstream media degenerate into covering the dispute between Assembly and Senate Republicans over whether the Zoo interchange should be delayed, I checked...
Walker Proposes Rollback of Complete Streets
Governor Walker's budget address on February third is getting a lot of press for the $1.3 billion of borrowing for transportation, but there is...
Slow News Week Thursday
The slow news week continues, so I have to make my own . . . luckily I have some material you won't be reading...
Mid-week Round Up
Lots and lots of miscellaneous . . . catching up on non-budget, non-Edgewater related topics! And no long meetings to report on! ...
Maybe Republicans Will Come Round on Global Warming Now?
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...
Complain About Alternative Transportation on Leap Day!
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...
“Cars First” is not a Progressive Policy Position.
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...