Advice delivered from the stoop to the newly-elected President:
One lesson yet unlearned involved the nation's growing debt. Through the eighties the United States had been unwilling to take action to reduce its rising debt. If the U.S. Government had placed a tax of one trillion dollars on wealth of Americans before the crash and designated half of that trillion dollars to reduce the national debt, Americans would have been outraged. Yet the markets, in their brutal, inexorable fashion, had taken exactly that action and confiscated half a trillion dollars in national wealth. And the debt still remained.from Haynes Johnson's Sleepwalking Through History.
The Department of Transportation's Transitweb project awarded four agencies special recognition for their web sites. Unsurprisingly, three are in California:
www.bigbluebus.com, www.sfmuni.com, and www.vta.org. If these are the best, we're in trouble. Hell, we're in trouble anyways. Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus site stands out for its functional map.
The West Virgina agency cited by Volpe, Mountain Line, doesn't even adhere to web standards. The information is poorly-organised, inaccessible to people with disabilities, and out of date.