The fast lane?

By J.R. | May 10, 2008

Filed Under Transportation |

Looks like U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary, Mary Peters, is trying a foray into new media …and so far so good. “The Fast Lane” includes a post by Gov. Kaine, a discussion on the Metro, and some thoughts on a Gas Tax holiday, among others.

If transportation is your thing, then this is your blog.

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6 Responses to “The fast lane?”

  1. Brian Kirwin on May 10th, 2008 1:00 pm

    Wow. What a find! That’s a heck of a blog.

  2. Henry Ryto on May 11th, 2008 12:47 am

    I’ve bookmarked it.

  3. Ragnar on May 11th, 2008 8:30 am

    Where was her decision to allow unsafe Mexican trucks, and untrained Mexican truck drivers on our roads? (Or her belief that riding a bike is not a form of transportation…?)

    Is this just another example (a seven year trend…) of putting business first, and American lives second?

  4. J.R. on May 11th, 2008 8:39 am

    Ragnar,
    Given that you have a fiancee, I would have thought you’d be a bit more, shall we say, optimistic. But I see a leopard is incapable of changing its spots.

    Whether it is Obama, Bush, Clinton, McCain, etc….there will always be bureaucrats making bad decisions…however, adding a blog to communicate with the general public for a degree of transparency is a good thing.

  5. LittleDavid on May 11th, 2008 10:36 pm

    Thanks for the link J.R.

    I’ve bookmarked it as well.

    Problem with her site is that it is going to end up being swamped with comments, give it a little time. On that site, the debate should be limited to “credentialed” participants like elected officials and members of transportation committees or something. It does not need to become draconian in limiting access, however she is going to need some method of filtering access or she’ll end up spending all of her time on monitoring her blog and neglecting some of her other responsibilities.

    She is going to have to trust the Constitution. Let our elected and appointed representatives speak for us. Just let the debate by the “elites” be visible to the public.

    What we need is for our local representatives to start up their own blogs so we can give them hell there. Then local representatives can take the hell we give them to people like the Secretary of Transportation.

    You can not have a good debate in chaos.

  6. ragnar on May 12th, 2008 4:14 pm

    Jim - you don’t think that the Hon. Mary Peters is actually writing anything on her site do you?

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