Today, I saw a huge, diesel tow truck hauling either two or three bicycles, strapped to its flatbed, out of the parking lot of the Masonic temple downtown. Did they break down? Were they chained to the doors in protest? Will the drivers have to use a carbon footprint to get home and to reclaim their bikes?

Meanwhile the Cato Institute has a new policy report about the impotency of government-mandated transit plans in the real world. The JLF also has eyes to see that transit plans, as a means of vibrant placemaking, aren’t doing a good job of getting people where they want to go.