Over at a WestAllisNOW community blog, "StubbornOldMan" asks me the following:
I have no personal axe to grind with you John, but you haven't answered either of the two questions I asked you.
1) What specific conditions would lend a particular interchange to be a poor candidate for a roundabout interchange? You hinted that there are defintely some. You're being just a tad bit too general in your criticisms for my objective mind.
2) If businesses lose income as a result of lower sales as a result of consumers going elsewhere, doesn't that automatically result in a less profitable business (consequently less tax revenue)?
1) What specific conditions would lend a particular interchange to be a poor candidate for a roundabout interchange? You hinted that there are defintely some. You're being just a tad bit too general in your criticisms for my objective mind.
2) If businesses lose income as a result of lower sales as a result of consumers going elsewhere, doesn't that automatically result in a less profitable business (consequently less tax revenue)?
Having had no luck attempting (twice) to post a hasty - but long - reply at the community blog, let this post be an assurance to "StubbornOldMan" that I will address his questions right here on Sunday.** (Especially that incisive second question, which seems to be based on someone's mistaken supposition about roundabouts' impact on a local economy. Hmmmm ... could loss of income mean a less profitable business?)
But I'm not doing it today, because I'm going to Summerfest to see KISS! Maybe I'll see "StubbornOldMan" there ...
**Gonna have to be MONDAY - - got caught up in a photography project at the KISS show, which you can see here.
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