Toll diversion — theft if you don’t want to be polite — has been popular in recent decades. Tolls in Western Massachusetts funded the Big Dig in Boston, tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike pay for mass transit in Philadelphia, and tolls on the New York Thruway pay for canals. Canals? Fed-up truckers struck back at […]
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Boston’s commissioner of propaganda speaks
On the radio I heard three false and misleading statements attributed to the Boston Transportation Commissioner. I was tempted to call them lies, but she’s an MBA, not a PE, so she doesn’t have an ethical duty to know what she’s talking about. And she doesn’t. The person in charge of traffic safety in Boston […]
Ignore this sign
Ignore every speed limit sign in Massachusetts. The governor just signed a bill repealing state oversight over municipal speed limits. Cities were sick of having the rules get in the way of speed traps. If you were pretending speed limit signs mean anything, stop. Under old law, municipal speed limits were supposed to be posted […]
What’s the opposite of infallible?
If a pedestrian crosses against the light, should you swerve around him? Not in Massachusetts, according to a recent decision of the Massachusetts Appeals Court. Slam on the brakes or else. The judges ruled that neither a green light nor a don’t walk signal means anything; the driver is always wrong. Technically pedestrians aren’t supposed […]
Absence of ethics
In 1979 an engineer got a phone call and was persuaded to violate professional standards. By his bad luck he isn’t remembered as “a guy who approved a nuisance stop sign” but “the guy they teach college students not to be like.” According to the code of ethics for professional engineers, engineers “shall approve only […]
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