Annapolis Capital Punishment

Our local newspaper's new online blog has a transportation columnist! Hooray. It's about time. However, what do we know about him and what do we know about what he knows about transportation???? Take this from his most recent posting for example:

"Three cheers for the Annapolis Transportation Department for placing a four-way stop sign at the corner of Franklin and Shaw Streets in the Murray Hill section of the city."

Uh, hulloah "Doctor" but you should know that the the city's transportation department has nothing, absolutely nothing, bupkus, nada, zippo to do with erecting street signs except those specifically related to bus stops. That would be under the purview of the Department of Public Works, in all likelihood carried out by traffic engineer Larry Moore on Spa Road. There is a transportation planner (A real doctor as in PhD by the way) at Planning and Zoning, but he does not put up signs either. And you should know that many of our city streets are really state roads, so it might not even be our own DPW but the folks from the State Highway Administration. They are out on Defense Hwy. if you need to check with them.

Everyone makes mistakes, but that one was covered in journalism 101 and if you are going to write about these matters, we the readers expect you should know more than we do. So "Doctor" if you need help understanding anything else about local and regional transportation, feel free to give me a call....perhaps even a house call, but try to get the facts straight please.

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