Transportation in the News

I'm often troubled by the fact that I feel as though my job is completely separated from reality. This feeling is based on a few things. One, it's difficult to feel accomplished. It's hard for me to point to one tangible thing, documents excepted, and say that this exists or this is a certain way because of me and because of what I have done. Secondly, while transportation is a critical component to everyones lives, VERY few people realize the far reaching affects of transportation and our transportation choices.

Having your entire job based in something that so few people appreciate or understand can be disheartening. For an unfortunate reason, the bridge collapse in Minnesota, transportation and my profession has been thrust into the spotlight. Just today I heard excerpts from a press conference where Bush was answering questions about transportation funding, gas tax increases and earmarks. It was pretty cool to hear things I am familiar with from work in mainstream media. Right now I am watching Bloomberg and Bill Nye the Science Guy is talking about how inefficient many of our transportation habits are. Cool eh?