Bob Collins
Give the people of Morristown, New Jersey some credit for at least acknowledging out loud — sort of — that a person’s car is their castle and they have a god-given right to do whatever they want therein.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Transportation
We’ve said it before but we say it again: No industry works as hard to alienate its customers as the airline industry does. Read more →
Metro Transit had a big chance to show off with last night’s opening of the Minnesota Vikings stadium in Minneapolis.
It blew it.
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If drivers would simply behave differently, the main cause of traffic jams could be eliminated. Read more →
It doesn’t seem possible that it’s been three years since Shaina Briscoe , an avid and well-known Twin Cities cyclist, started out on a race to the lakes of the Twin Cities, and sustained a severe brain injury when she and an SUV collided in Minneapolis. Read more →
We suppose by now we should just accept as a given that when it rains, you should be nowhere near Fairview Avenue beneath the Highway 36 overpass.
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Now that we’ve gotten the whole texting-and-driving problem solved… Read more →
Ruined food from power outages is a nuisance. A downed tree can still be firewood. But a car in a flood? That’s an awfully expensive paperweight. Read more →
We curmudgeonly types live for those moments when a friend or colleague (sometimes they’re one and the same) tells us that we’re right. [Insert cliched reference to it not happening that often here].
The subject: The transportation backwater that is Minnesota.
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A video from Woodbury makes a good case for a helmet law in Minnesota for motorcyclists. Read more →
Many drivers don’t stop at the red light before turning right. If they do, they often look only to the left. It’s how innocent people die in Minnesota on a surprisingly regular basis.
Almost unanimously in my 10-minute survey, drivers never stopped at the red light before turning right on red. And those who did never looked to the right; they were only interested in making sure no car was coming from the left.
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In Fitchburg, Wis., Mayor Steve Arnold has proposed that his city ‘privatize’ cul-de-sacs and let the people who live on them pay for their upkeep, Wisconsin State Journal says. Read more →
Is it still possible to come up with a regional and professional transportation policy in the Twin Cities?
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Would you camp outside a car dealership for a crack at buying a $35,000 car with a range of about 200 miles?
They are in Eden Prairie, KARE 11 reports Read more →
I’m a sucker for stories from the bus, usually tweets from people in real-time, trying to get somewhere on a Metro Transit vehicle.
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