I’d still like to know why the future demands, for example, a train station that the present (apparently) does not. What is the basis for the claim that the current station will be inadequate for “The Future”? How many new people does Mr. Westphal expect will come here to ride the train? Why does The Future need the intercity passenger station to be at University Hospital, when the present (again, apparently) does not? Why does Mr. Westphal believe that his crystal ball sees so much deeper into the further than the balls used by those whom he opposes? Does he really know something to which the rest of us are not privy, or is he just on a rant?

Feel free to substitute your favorite “For the Future” item for “Train Station” in the above paragraph.

It was a shock to see dirt roads even inside the city here (in a township island in the Second Ward, in an affluent neighborhood).

I lived in Wisconsin for a year and visited relatives in Illinois that year for Thanksgiving. All the folks said “Wisconsin has good roads.” I wasn’t all that impressed, coming from Texas, which also has good county roads. Then I moved to Michigan and really appreciated Wisconsin’s roads.

As I recall, most of the roads inside Madison are concrete, not asphalt.

I would like to see those numbers on a per mile basis.

Two reasons for this: One is that almost every weekday evening is already taken up with meetings and scheduling becomes a problem.

Another is that staff are almost always involved and it means that they have to meet with a group outside their workday.

“Four members of the LOCC constitute a quorum for conducting business.”