Category: Places that Suck
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LOS-A for People: Willy/Blair/E. Wilson/John NoLane*
Planning for People at the Giant Hairball Intersection of John NoLane/Blair/Willy/E Wilson.
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Never Leave Home Without Your Geographer: Krugman, Gruber
In my daily dose of Krugman I really enjoyed this: China also derives big advantages from the fact that so much of the supply chain is already there. A former Apple executive explained: “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away.”…
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Pleasant’s Wrecking Ball
Pleasant & Co. wish to demolish the spirit of State Street.
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And the Paving Goes On….
Just sent this to the Long Range Transportation Planning Committee: Dear Commissioners, I have reviewed in great detail Item 5. Informational Presentation on the Preliminary Design of the CTH M Roadway Corridor (Prairie Hill Road to Cross Country Road). How can any of these highway expansion options be acceptable in light of the budget squeeze caused by…
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Downtown Plan: Pave the Lakes! Drive a Stake through Miffland!
Madison’s Downtown Plan seeks to kill everything that makes Madison not Rockford: Kill Miffland, Pave the Lakes.
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Surprise! Surprise! Budgetary Surprise! (Not!)
As I predicted three years ago, Madison highway expansion binge is overwhelming city finances.
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Pave, Baby, Pave!
Madison: A city hardwiring itself for mandatory driving, mandatory energy gluttony, mandatory dirty water, mandatory flooding. Pave, Baby, PAVE!
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‘Sleeper’ items on Tuesday Council Agenda: Before the Pave, the Pipe
Below is an excellent little analysis of a couple of items destined to be rubber stamped by our paving council this evening. This comes from a small local listserv*: On just about every City Council Agenda you’ll find ‘sleeper’ items — seemingly innocuous — but which have huge implications in future. Twenty-or forty-years from now,…