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Dave Barry on Miami’s Rail Transit

By | | News commentary, Transportation
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Dave Barry’s column welcoming people to the Superbowl in Miami has some interesting comments on Miami’s rail transit system.

Miami’s rail system “does not go to many other places that many Miami residents would like to go, which is why most of them do not use it,” says Barry. “To them, the Metrorail train is a mysterious object that occasionally whizzes past over their heads, unrelated to their lives, kind of like a comet.”

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The Ethics of Planning

By | | Transportation, Why Planning Fails
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Imagine you are the director of a federal agency that gives grants to state and local governments. Suppose a researcher in your agency’s department finds that the local governments to which you give grants routinely lied on their grant applications in order to get the money.

Do you:
a. Root out and punish the states and cities that lied?
b. Tighten up your grantmaking procedures to make sure that future lies are exposed? or
c. Use your political power to have the researcher transferred to a dead-end job and ordered never to do research on your agency’s programs again?

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