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Caltrans offers $25K prize for ideas to improve transportation

Original post made on Sep 5, 2015

Caltrans is giving Californians an opportunity to earn $25,000 in exchange for submitting the most innovative idea to improve transportation and other state services.


Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, September 3, 2015, 11:14 AM

Comments

Posted by Louise68
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Sep 5, 2015 at 1:19 pm

But -- isn't it Caltrans' job to come up with good, practical ideas about how to best get us all to where we are going, and back, safely and efficiently and at a reasonable cost to us? Aren't they supposed to be the real experts on this -- having all the facts at hand, and having years of training in transportation planning? And isn't it our legislators' job to support really good transportation and properly fund it long-term?

This silly contest is not needed. (And the prize is so small it is ludicrous.)