Alright it's Sunday. However... I've been listening to the recruitment effort by WLRN, asking for your input on public radio's traffic reporting within the listening area in Miami. I am a regular listener to WLRN and have been for a long time Its effort to make light the dark burden of traveling on unbearably crowded, clogged roadways has always been irritating. The reason? It's not just the goofy rhyming couplets.
If WLRN were serious about traffic-- which is obviously a major issue for all Miami residents-- its programming would long, long ago have provided a steady drumbeat of news and opinion about the terrible zoning decisions and bad decisions on mass transit that led to enormous wastes of time, energy and money that people spend in cars on congested roadways in Miami.
But nudging WLRN to dive into reporting controversial Miami politics around zoning and transportation is like trying to persuade a polar bear to relocate to the tropics. For WLRN to be asking our views on its traffic reporting now is slightly ridiculous, slightly condescending, and fairly indicative of the ways in which local public radio has let down Miami over the years. Just one listener's opinion.
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it would seem that no one in this community is serious about traffic here. It's gone past the line between absurd and offensive long ago. It is a joke. And the recent revelations on the transit dept and the way they've spent $ is just horrible. I sincerely appreciate the fix that the Mayor and Kapour (sp?) the Transit director have tried to do... I don't envy their position.
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