Maybe our Indiana Governor is finally doing something right?

by AK - Jeff 9 Replies latest jw friends

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  AK - Jeff

  http://www.theindychannel.com/news/10523738/detail.html

  INDIANAPOLIS -- Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday that Indiana and Illinois have signed an agreement to study potential locations for a new highway that would run between Interstate 94 in Indiana and Interstate 57 in Illinois.

  Daniels said the Indiana portion of the so-called Illiana Expressway would be built with private funds and be operated as a toll road. He said it would help relieve traffic congestion in northwest Indiana and the Chicago area, particularly along I-80/94.

  The study will cost between $5 million and $10 million and take no more than three years to complete.

  Anyone who is familiar with the traffic issues on the south end of Chicago/Indiana Line are, can see something needs to be done there.

  Daniels has pulled some real boneheaded moves so far in office - but this might be a good call.

  Jeff
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  whyizit

  Daniels has done some great things and some bone-head things. I certainly agree.
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  whyizit

  He really shot himself in the foot with this lousy time change!

  It was not well received and it over shadows anything good he accomplishes, because it is such a pain in the butt for us regular Joe's.

  I especially love it when I am trying to get my son to go to bed at 8:30pm and it is still broad daylight for an extra hour and a half! His grades really suffered last spring.
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  mrsjones5

  I don't have a problem with the time change. Maybe cuz I'm from California.
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  juni

  That would be a huge improvement for us that travel that way!

  Going out east I always dreaded that part of the trip.

  Juni
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  RubaDub

  I especially love it when I am trying to get my son to go to bed at 8:30pm and it is still broad daylight for an extra hour and a half!

  Whyizit ... daylight savings time only changes one hour ... how do you get an extra hour and a half of daylight ???

  Also, unless there are special needs that I am not aware of, why would you put a school-aged child to bed at 8:30 ?

  By the time many people get home from work .... 6pm, 7pm or later with traffic ... 8:30 seems VERY early.

  We put our daughter in 1st grade to bed about 10pm or so ... she gets up at 7am and seems to do fine.

  It just seems to me like putting a child to bed at 8:30 cuts down on a lot of quality time. I guess I wouldn't want to sleep either!

  Rub a Dub
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  mrsjones5

  I guess the bedtime would depend on how early the child has to get up for school and how much sleep the child really needs.

  My kids are up in the morning from 5:35 to 7:20. 5:35am is my oldest boy who is in junior high and catches the bus as 6:40 am. My youngest boy is in Early Childhood Development, goes to the morning session and catches his bus at 8:05 am, so I get him up at 7:20. My second son goes to kindergarden in the afternoon so he's easy - gets up anytime he wants. My daughter is in elementary, gets up at the same time as baby boy and catches her bus at 8:23 am.

  They all go to bed at 9pm. We think the oldest one should be in bed earlier but this is the way it's been working out. Don't care if it's still light out, bedtime is bedtime.

  Josie
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  whyizit

  My son wakes up at 5:30am, no matter what. That is his own body's schedule, which is fine, because he spends time with us in the morning before he goes school and we go to work. He is exhausted by 8pm, and 8:30pm is late for him to go to bed as it is. Summer he gets to stay up until 9:00pm. We adults need some "quality" time together too. :) That schedule works out for us.

  Any later than 9pm and we have a cranky grouch on our hands the next day. No thanks!

  Seems like the days last forever and the nights not long enough. Kids are standing out in the pitch dark waiting on the school bus. Then they have to go to bed while it is still light out. Everyone complains about it. It is a change that is very hard for us to get used to in our area.

  Of course, Daniels originally wanted us to be on the same time as Illinois, but that was changed. If we had went in that direction, it would have been much better.
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  mrsjones5

  My oldest stands out in the dark in the morning now and we're not on Daylight Savings time. In the spring it seems lighter to me. I can see the arguement about the evenings being lighter in the summer but I don't see where the kids are in the dark in the mornings in the spring. Maybe at first but it doesn't last long.

  And I think if most of the state had been put on Central time instead of Eastern time it would be getting dark a hour earlier in the fall, at least for the eastern counties.

  Josie
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  AK - Jeff

  Daniels is selling off the state a mile at a time IMO. The toll-road lease is terribly short sighted - now he wants to 'privatize' the lotto.

  I actually liked the guy going into office - now it seems he just wants to parcel it out on short term cash. Kinda like sub-leasing your house - with no where to go. Maybe he knows what he is doing - but I can't see where he is going with it all.

  The daylight savings is a pain in the butt for us too - I think mostly because we never had to change the clocks here. Why can't the whole world just go on GMT and forget all the time zones/DST etc?

  Jeff