Here’s what I got . . . I’d have been tempted to skip it, but it looks like there are still plenty of people reading the blogs over the holidays . . . plus, I’ve broken readership records this month and might as well see where it goes. It’s about as brief as the City and County meeting week ahead.
SNOW
You might have missed it, the Mayor released his rather weak 12 page snow report on Christmas Eve Day. No wonder you missed it. I’ll have a blog post on it tomorrow, still looking for something I want to include, but Soglin has a bit to say about it. And he’s right, there was no conscious decision made by the Council, some of us (Rhodes-Conway, Rummel, Webber and myself) tried to get them to be accountable for the decisions being made and worked hard to make some improvements, but they didn’t make it easy for us and make it clear they were annoyed we were “interfering”. And it was difficult to get information we wanted. You can see some of it in my past posts (mostly) labeled snow.
FIX IT FIRST
Former Alder Robbie Webber has a good post where she puts the numbers for transportation projects in perspective.
METRO HOLIDAY SERVICE DREAM
The Cap Times reported:
On Christmas Eve next Thursday (Dec. 24), buses will follow their regular weekday schedules but will stop running at 6 p.m.
The former Transit and Parking Commission Chair, Carl DuRocher, who was not reappointed by Mayor Dave, and a paratransit rider, had this to say:
In the same way that Miller Beer voluntarily ponies up money to pay for extended service on New Year’s eve, I dream of a benefactor who’d defray the cost of Metro running on Christmas Eve. It’s a day when a lot of once a year opportunities are lost for transit dependent riders, especially paratransit riders.
HO CHUNK AND UNION CORNERS
Just to make it clear. This post has some details about ideas that might be pursued. The group’s legislative council has not yet voted to pursue the project, but its still exciting to think about the possibilities. And its still impressive that this is where we are starting to talk about the project.
Yeah, that’s about it for today . . . not much going on as most people take the week off. Not me, off to work! 9 – 6 Monday – Wednesday.
