My son is home sick today and is currently watching Phineas and Ferb on Disney Channel. If you do not have kids in your family you may be unaware, but these two boys are 9 and 12 year-old step-brothers who each week build something incredible to have fun on their summer vacation. They have [...]
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As time gets closer (July 31st) to the twelve regions in Georgia voting on the T-SPLOST sales tax proposal, the campaigns are heating up in the media and the public square. Most people who share my political views on other issues disagree with me on the need for the T-SPLOST. I believe that the people [...]
For years, even decades when you thought of road transportation in Georgia, you thought of GDOT. It was GDOT that built the roads, maintained them and managed the traffic on them. It was GDOT that created the Georgia NaviGAtor program for ITS solutions starting in 1996. Certainly this agency will continue to do these same [...]
In Atlanta, highway transportation milestones are heralded as possible panaceas for the congestion that has its boot on the throat of the Atlanta commuter and has done so for a number of years. Early on, progress was swift. Atlanta had its main routes (75 and 85) through the city and its perimeter (285) completed earlier than most [...]
I don’t often live tweet – most of my tweets are from Google searches – fresh but not instant information. However this week while listening to Neal Boortz, syndicated talk show host with his home base at WSB 750 in Atlanta, I heard Neal begin to talk about the Transportation tax – as expected, he was [...]
Wow, with my JAVA Programming class and everything else going on – had no idea I had skipped 8 weeks blogging! I thought I’d offer some food for thought on the transportation guns versus butter debate. Not a judgment but a couple of examples. On Bernie Wagenblasts’s newsletter I found this interesting story from Australia. [...]
Back when I was in high school, Reagan was president and there was a political battle over how much to spend on the military and how much on social programs and entitlements. (We of course have the same issue today.) What I remember about back then is that the media called it a battle between [...]
Before posting another item on my current project, the sight of shrink wrapped ads on MARTA trains got me thinking again about transportation funding – the 700 pound gorilla in our midst. The fact that I am working part time as an Internet Marketing Analyst for Capture Commerce has me thinking more about ads and [...]
NOTE: This post was written a few months ago and mistakenly left as a draft… I heard on the radio coming in this AM that ASCE has released an Infrastructure Report Card for the country and the results were not good. See HERE. There is no easy solution. There are plenty of vendors and consultants [...]
In the Atlanta metro area traffic is a problem and even with a myriad of consultants in the area doing traffic and ITS work the demand is such that new alternative solutions must be considered and implemented. There are plans and discussions to convert some of the HOV lanes on I-85 north toward South Carolina [...]
