[bigaln2]

Instead, the goal is “smart growth” designed to control our lives.

The only way to increase our state’s budget is to increase production output, creating additional tax revenues. Besides lowering taxes and cutting spending, the quickest method of improving our economy will be to increase state commerce through faster in-state transport of goods and services.

She gets it!

[lelio]

We can apply a little free-marketness to the problem of road congestion by charging tolls based on the time of day the road is used. During Rush Hour its a certain amount. Other times there's no charge. Maybe split up the rush hour into two different charging periods.
That way the people that use the road when it is over capacity pay for its use. The people that decide to change their schedules, or don't have to be at work at 9AM save money.
Right now everyone sees road use as free and with no cost, except for their time. So everyone's on the road between 8 and 9AM leading to traffic jams.
Plus charging for peak time use makes you less dependant on gas taxes, which charge everyone no matter if you're adding to congestion.

[Fish out of Water]

ping

[bigfootbob]

Remove the Minnesota by-line and insert Seattle and the situations are mirrored. Wow! Maybe the sleeping majority are starting to wake up to this insidious social engineering we've been experiencing for several decades.

[FreedomPoster]

She gets it! Bump!

(that was my immediate reaction, too, after reading her editorial and before seeing your comment)

[RightWhale]

Instead of keeping up with transportation needs, the government has created the congestion mess

That's the truth. They don't know at all what they are doing. No more towns, no more communities, local roads become arterials, no place to walk to - got to drive, got to have a car - 14 trips per day.

[Interesting Times]

That's a heck of an article from a college student.

We may be hearing more from this one...

[Johnny Gage]

Yes, she gets it. The biggest odddity is that the MN DAILY actually published it.

That is one of THE MOST demonrat biased socialist toilet wipe of a publication. Second only to the "Red Star Diaper"