What I'm about to describe here sounds almost like a parody of suburb street-development-by-plumbers, but this is what's on the table tonight at the Board of Public Works Meeting: *LETTER FOR GREENDALE RELATIVE TO A JOINT APPLICATION FOR S. 51ST STREET – RAWSON AVENUE TO COLLEGE AVENUE FOR...

GoogleMap image uploaded with plasq's Skitch! We have a fairly serious transparency problem here in Franklin. The city website is fairly incomprehensible, and staffing shortages mean that it'll be a long time before resources can be devoted to making it easier for people to know what meeting...

Lest we treat traffic like by-the-book plumbers (Bigger pipes! More asphalt) rather than enlightened engineers (Better solutions! Cleaner alternatives! Properly maintain what we have!), let's make this stimulus situation an opportunity to get on the right track(s). Do the right thing for state&#...

Always time for another profitable outrage or two before headin' back to the ranch. UPDATE: Timber firm drops road use request ("When we heard about the concern for further input, we said, 'Well, that makes sense,' and we apologized and set up some [public] meetings," said Kath...

The AP reports that driving in America has undergone its most dramatic decline in history, as Americans drove 100 billion fewer miles during the 12-month period ending October 2008 compared with the prior year. “The fact that the trend persists even as gas prices are dropping,� said Transportati...

It's not a Dairy Queen or Cousin's Subs. Kidz Unplugged, which bills itself as "one-stop shopping for the mind, body and spirit of our children" ("This center will serve as the first exclusive children’s holistic center in the community focusing on natural enrichment activit...

Sometimes good intentions don't allow you to have your cake and eat it, too. Governing.com: 13th Floor: The End of the Bake Sale: posted by Zach Patton Bakesale When I was growing up, bake sales were a fact of life for school, sports teams, academic clubs, whatever. There was even one especially...

Look, let me say at the outset that in spite of my consternation at his fairly inexplicable appointment to the Plan Commission, I have nothing against former alderman Pete Kosovich. I am, to be sure, disturbed with his affiliation with the dubious Franklin Citizens for Responsible Government (FCRG),...

From How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic » Blog Archive » Joe the Dumber: Traffic-related presidential campaign hijinx don’t get any better than Joe McCain’s much-celebrated call to 911 to register the following: “Well, it’s not an emergency, but do you know why on one sid...

The question is asked in this article: "Who wants parking spaces to be the hallmark of a development?" Answer: Every developer in Franklin, Wisconsin. ABOVE: Shoppes at Wyndham Village/Target From The Washington Post: Where the Car Is King, Tysons Faces a Dilemma Urban Planners Take Aim at Free Park...