Faster Traffic, Lots of Wins

Why aren't we all doing this?

 

Ideas Worth Stealing: Easing traffic with technology, not blacktop

Why aren't all cities doing this? 

Think of the benefits.

• Less time wasted
• Less gas burned, wasted
• Less pollution
• More productivity
• Less frustration, anger, even possible road rage

Huge gains.

Can you imagine if Kansas City and all the cities and towns in the area---and state and nation---did this?

DUI checkpoints this weekend: there's a shocker, huh?

I see today, at the Kansas City Star website, where the Overland Park police are going to hold a "DUI saturation patrol this weekend" and the "Kansas City police plan to conduct a sobriety checkpoint this weekend." Okay, question: First, could they stop announcing these? Really, anymore, don't we all pretty much assume they're going to do this every weekend anyway, for starters? Then, secondly, the people who are out there drinking and driving, are they really effected, one way or another, by these announcements? Finally, don't we actually want a bit of surprise on this anyway, so more are caught and more people are spared any car wrecks? So when you put these factors together, doesn't it make the weekly release of this information just repetitive and unnecessary on the police department's part and the printing of them, on the Star's part? Isn't it pretty much pointless, shallow and predictable? Links: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/27/2110085_dui-checkpoint-planned-for-kc.html?storylink=omni_popular http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/26/2109451_op-to-conduct-dui-saturation-patrol.html?storylink=omni_popular