Oh, goodie; the annual meeting of the American Automobile Associations (AAA) Foundation for Traffic Safety research and development committee will take place in February. That’s the time when a bunch of suits sit around a big table and decide which college or university should receive money for traffic safety research projects. It’s also a photo [...]
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Let’s look forward…together
Posted in Creative Problem Solving, Drunk driving, Human behavior, Opinions, Traffic on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Commuting and productivity
Posted in Accountability, Creative Problem Solving, Hospitals, Patient care, People, Personal, Philosophy, Traffic on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It never fails to amaze me that Americans who commute by automobile longer than ten to fifteen minutes to their jobs get anything done. No, no, no, not done all day, but certainly anything done during the first hour after their arrival and the last hour of their workday. I will grant that there are [...]
Wake up, Massachusetts
Posted in Education, Human behavior, Law & Justice, Life, Opinions, Personal, Traffic on July 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The genie is out of the bottle, and it’s going to be nearly impossible to get it back in. The Massachusetts State Legislature seems to believe that it can just enact a few laws or toughen those that are already on the books, and the genie will gently return to its rightful place, ie, under [...]
Traffic…Another Reason to Retire
Posted in Life, Traffic on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If the traffic problem in the rest of the country is as bad as it is in Massachusetts, this nation has a serious transportation situation on its hands. Oh sure, we’re improving our roads, even widening a 13-mile strip on 128; we’re lighting them better, installing ‘alert boards,’ and performing all sorts of wonderful, minor [...]
