From Dad 29, Headless Blogger and Boot and Sabers Interesting find how Wisconsin was the first in the world to number all roads in the state.
I don't think the libs were running the state back in 1917!
Makes you proud to be from Wisconsin.
By late 1917, with all surveys and field reconnaissance completed, the State Highway Commission laid out a system of 5,000 miles of numbered state trunklines on paper.
During one week in May of 1918, all route designation signage was erected and Wisconsin became the first in the world with a signed system of route-numbered highways. Michigan, Wisconsin's neighbor to the east, adopted a similar highway signing plan later in 1918.
I have a couple of questions.
It took just one week to put up all the highway signage?
Were the people that took just one week to accomplish this the first union employee's in the state of Wisconsin? I think not!
By today's standards it would have taken five to ten years
Obviously the work done in 1917 was done by hard working people who cared more about getting this great feat done than what kind of a raise they should get. I bet most of the work was done for free. The point is how big state government has gotten and what it takes to get things done in local , state and federal governments today.
There are a lot of hard working county and state workers but what bureaucracy has done to us today is sometimes mind boggling!
Also how many planning committee's , environmental impact studies were done in 1917?
How many environmental groups screamed bloody murder that a hole was going to be dug to bury a sign? Whoa, you can't put signs up because you might endanger the blue butterfly!
We pay taxes upon taxes and what services are we getting for it.
We pay taxes upon taxes and what services are we getting for it.
We get the construction lobby rope a doping politicians in Madison and nothing gets done.
In our town ship we are spending around $160,000.00 for roads and road repairs
and our taxes went up this year in the town of Underhill. Yes I know a lot of it was the school taxes, but when you sit in on the budget meetings and the town board made the decision to raise taxes the maximum amount they could , where's the logic?
Example - we want to buld a road or put up a new sign.
How much does it really cost to first think of the idea ?
How much does it really cost to bring an idea forward?
How much does it cost to implement the idea?
How much will it cost?
What is the really cost, a certain amount or will there be cost over runs?
Who will do the work?
Who will over see the work getting done?
Who will make sure the work is getting done?
Who will inspect that the work is really getting done?
Who will inspect the inspector that the job was completed and completed correctly?
Ahhhhhhhh, the red tape of goverment on how ineffiecent they are.
Will things ever change?
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