No idea is too stupid for Madison WI
Give the City of Madison credit (and a generous bar tab). The Emerald City is always experimenting. Streets in two neighborhoods will test lower traffic speed limits — 20 mph, down from 25 mph. The City is also closing portions of other streets to encourage pedestrians and bicycles.
Being Madison, the city’s pedestrian bicycle administrator (does YOUR town have one?) lamented that last year’s street closures ended up being in “Whiter, weathier neighborhoods.” This time, the city will use Equity (we capitalize this holy term) as a “core consideration.”
The Werkes sent its undocumented immigrant (and unpaid) intern to flag down rush hour traffic on the South Beltline to ask:
What Equity experiments the city should attempt next?
“Bring back the Red Light District at King and Main to revitalize the Downtown.”
“There’s too many captains on this island. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.”
“Could we set up a crime-free zone somewhere in town? Drive 35 mph just don’t steal my car.”
“Set up a cop-free Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone from Whitney Way to Stoughton Road. It seems to work in Seattle.”
“Madison should secede from the U.S., learn Spanish and annex to Cuba.”
“Charge parents in court with the same crimes as their delinquent kids.”
Education
Blaska Policy Werkes 
Convert the left lane of the Beltline to a bicycle only lane.
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That thinking 30 years ago that everyone would don spandex and ride their bikes back and forth to work. Why beltline was stalled for so many years. Why beltline is only 6 lanes when it should have had 8, and overpasses 3 stories high, no stop and go like Verona road. Always horse and buggy thinking from city and the DOT. Now, all summer there will be monster backups from the speeders with no plates on their cars going in and out of lanes doing about 80 mph., never any police to stop them, they are scared to stop them, but in residential streets they put up radar. Every residential hood want speed bumps or radar. But, nope not from our leader (joke)., she never drives, owns no car, but had the guts to add on fee for buses to go ahead of others sitting at a stoplight. No, people will still drive their cars, especially the burb drivers from the outside city limits will not ride a bus. 100,000 maybe that come in to Madison every day. Do something about the ones with no plates going 80 to 90 everywhere lane to lane with no regard for human life. We know who they are but no one in law enforcement will touch them.
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Why just the left lane? Talk about being marginalized!
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Designate State Street as an Area 51 site.
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Free pot for everyone. That way, if everyone is stoned, nothing will matter.
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The dolts who run this city are already stoned on left-wing ideology. It’s a high that never fades.
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Here’s a few more ideas that should progressives should propose, what could go wrong?
and last but not least…
There, that should get everyone started down the “right” progressive track.
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You forgot to mention the rezoning to allow backyard cottages for the ones who do not work, will never work, and do not want to work. Those big yards will be no more under our great leader. (laughing on the floor).
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Chicken coop conversions will be on the rise.
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Ban the use of all forms of carbon based fuels within the City of Madison, bike it, hike it, or go electric, no exceptions.
Banning all carbon based life forms would solve everything. Some head-in-the-silicon-sand conservatives would oppose it, though.
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Outlaw cars, electricity, natural gas, running water, etc.
They all come from “white supremacy” .
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This attitude was never demonstrated more shockingly than when Jenifer Granholm, upon being asked about drivers on the East Coast sitting in gas lines for hours, replied with a smirk that if they were driving electric cars, there would be no problem. Exactly why Trump got elected. You can count on one thing from the left: they never learn.
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As though it mattered, stop smoking the bong before writing the next column.
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Vision Zero initiative. Search on ‘reduced speed limit initiative’ and notice how many cities, completely non-coincidentally, are doing exactly the same thing at exactly the same time. Vision Zero https://visionzeronetwork.org/ – National Recommendations: Addressing Safety & Equity
with the Safe System Approach, which is one small part of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. Don your R emblazoned blazers now.
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