{"id":1155,"date":"2007-08-07T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2007-08-06T16:22:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T21:22:40","slug":"some-collapse-others-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Some Collapse. Others Burn."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been collecting emails and other material about the chronic mess that is the Minnesota Department of Transportation.\u00a0 There’ll be a much bigger post on this issue later on this week.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Sarah Janecek starts digging into the rathole<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The bridge collapse–in what’s sure to be an excruciatingly painful process–will put the spotlight on what anyone who has worked in Minnesota transportation policy has known for decades: the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is a mess. No one administration or political party is to blame. The Rudy Perpich <\/span>(DFL) Administration (1982-1990), the Arne Carlson<\/span> (R) Administration (1990-1998), the Jesse Ventura<\/span> (I) Administration (1998-2002) and the Tim Pawlenty <\/span>(R) Administration (2002-to present) have all made the same call. There are other, sexier things to fund rather than existing infrastructure and that’s what’s happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That, as they say, is just the beginning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

In other Bridge-related news, Wog has some theories about the collapse<\/a>.\u00a0 Some make you go “hmm”, some make you go “hmph”, and all of them are better than anything Nick Coleman’s come up with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been collecting emails and other material about the chronic mess that is the Minnesota Department of Transportation.\u00a0 There’ll be a much bigger post on this issue later on this week. In the meantime, Sarah Janecek starts digging into the rathole: The bridge collapse–in what’s sure to be an excruciatingly painful process–will put the spotlight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-collapse","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}