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A New Way of Making Sausage for the MTIP
The Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program (or MTIP) is the basic spending plan for transportation in our region. Most of the funds involved are programed quite proscriptively, but in each two-year cycle there are several tens of millions of dollars that are truly flexible, we can spend them as we choose. The result is intense competition…
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Transit Appliance Goes Out for a Beer
Today I had the opportunity to install our first alpha test unit of the Transit Appliance at Bailey’s Taproom (213 SW Broadway at Ankeny). Happily, compared to hotel WiFi setups, Bailey’s was a snap, with a simple passphrase entry. But each installation comes with new discoveries. At this location near the transit mall there are…