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Problem: the streetcar would operate better with a dedicated lane.
Solution: scrap the streetcar.

No, that doesn't make sense.[/quote]

Well, it might make sense. What if the streetcar performance is so hampered by lack of a dedicated lane that it is slower than a bus, or not so much faster that it justifies the added expense?

[b]The county board and the school board both operate as though they have no obligation to provide detailed descriptions of the information it used to produce a cost-benefit analysis[/b]. We're in a suburb crawling with policy analysts. Why on earth wouldn't the boards try to speak their language?[/quote]

-both institutions are controlled by democrats who are accustomed to thinking of other people's money as their own - to spend as they see fit.  THAT is the problem.  The voters told the Board that they did not want their tax-dollars spent on this expensive boondoggle; they expressed their view through meetings, letters, etc - and the Board arrogantly ignored them.  So the voters used their last resort:  the ballot box.

Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a day.
But give the man some one else's fish and he will vote for you. 
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