Noted in this morning's Argus yet more discussion about the on-going "road diet," the once and future solution to Petaluma's presumably flabby roads. After some seven years of steady dieting, cross-town traffic certainly hasn't improved (chorus of groans here), and there is little noticeable improvement in the quality or quantity [...]
Well kids, the Road Diet that not only failed to energize commerce but further clogged traffic west of Washington Blvd will now be inflicted on the downtown merchants. Our council majority must not have heard about all of the centrally-planned disasters (all done by the way in the name of achieving progressive, Utopian goals) that crippled the Soviet and Chinese economies and are now causing Venezuela to circle the drain. Or maybe they did, we're now learning that "progressive" really is synonymous with "anti-business."