345 Blog Posts From the John Carr Tag


Who Plows Your Roads?

By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist “I wanna race in a bigfoot truck.” — Mojo Nixon Last year the director of Massachusetts DOT District 3 was abruptly fired. Later he and others were indicted and have pleaded not guilty to fraud and corruption charges. He was not a minor official. Thomas Waruzila would have become […]

A Permanent Temporary Source of Funding

By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” — Rahm Emanuel A reporter found the next manufactured crisis that will allow Massachusetts to keep collecting Turnpike tolls more than 30 years after the road was supposed to become free. Like many toll roads, the Massachusetts Turnpike was built in […]

Does Your Car Make More Than You?

By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist I have been reading The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup. I’ll have more to say about the book later. I want to answer a question implied by the book’s title: how much does free parking cost you? “Free” parking is parking that costs nothing once you […]

Lying Black Boxes And The Truths They Tell

By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Last November, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray was out surveying storm damage when his car hit black ice on I-190 and slid off the road. It was just an accident. He was sober and obeying the speed limit and police agreed there was nothing he could have done. Some […]

Speed Limit 50 Except When We Don’t Like It

By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Vermont speed law is simpler than most. The speed limit is 50 except as posted following an engineering and traffic investigation. (23 VSA 1007, 1081) City officials in Burlington decided the law does not align with their wishes. They decreed the speed limit in town is 25 mph except […]

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