You Have the Right to Be Stuck In Traffic

Some days ago I read a small newspaper article that was a reply to a question about how those Highway On Ramp meters and lights work. It seems that some very smart traffic engineers have spent, what is I assume, a vast amount of the public's money to develop a system that tells drivers already on the on-ramps all around America, that road ahead of them is congested. What the genius traffic engineers didn't do was to place a RED traffic light or a flashing sign that says "Do Not Enter Congested" at the ENTRANCE to the on ramp. That way us dumb drivers, could avoid the congested roadway instead of just getting on, and then finding out the road was blocked or delayed.
This leads me to confirm that the people who design traffic control systems and roadways don't have drivers licenses. Just like the people at GM and CHRYSLER who build cars never drive them.

Collective Bargaining

I just read an article in the AARP magazine about a recent audit of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. A quasi-government authority that runs the New Jersey Turnpike. According to the article, the audit done by the New Jersey State Treasurer found millions and millions of dollars of wasted salaries and unearned bonuses. And how did the New Jersey Turnpike Authority management deflect the blame for its wastefulness? The management blamed the waste on its collective bargaining agreements. As if the NJTPKE management had not agreed to the wasteful agreements itself.
More and more it seems that when municipal or quasi-government agencies bargain with their unions, the unions get whatever they want, because the management and the unions are bargaining with themselves

Is it just me, or are all the articles written every day just seem to get me, more and more angry.