Flutterby™! : Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

Just finished Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, by Charles Marohn. Most of it is stuff I already knew, but dang it's good to see someone else saying it. When he pointed out that "...traffic congestion accelerates ...positive outcomes", I stood up and cheered. When he called for closing the USDOT, I hollered a "hellyeah". I definitely don't agree with all of his conclusions, but the book is a fantastic look at how our transportation system is bleeding us dry, and not serving our human needs.

A few weeks ago when we had Chuck on Know Before You Grow, in the pre-show I commented that I was feeling kinda bogged down in details and facts, I needed a revival, a sermon, a chance to shout "hallelujah!" and "amen". That session, and the subsequent few, Leah Shahum of Vision Zero, Mike McGinn, have me fired up and believing that we can improve our environment. That we can have infrastructure that works for us, and that actually has a return on investment, rather than simply sucking more and more value out of our communities.

Recommended.