Caesar baffled and inconsolable as "anti-establishment" candidate leads the mayoral race in Rome.

Caesar said “establishment politics is different than anti-establishment politics." He said when people have several choices to make, they are just interested in getting to their same old unimaginative ward heeler in a timely manner.

“If you make them think too much, they won’t vote the straight party ticket,” he said. “And people’s attitudes when it comes to pandering will have to change. With two-way pandering, they have to look for solutions in different directions.”

Rome likely to have elected its first female mayor, by Rosie Scammell (The Guardian)

Exit polls suggest that Virginia Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer, has won the job for the anti-establishment Five Star Movement

An anti-establishment outsider is on track to be elected mayor of Rome, according to exit polls, and become the first woman to run the Italian capital.

Virginia Raggi, the Five Star Movement’s (M5S) candidate, won between 64% and 68% of the vote, according to polls published on Sunday night by the Ansa news agency. The 37-year-old lawyer was well ahead of her rival, the Democratic party’s Roberto Giachetti, who was forecast to win between 32 and 36% of votes.

ENCORE ... "Bob Caesar Sez: Listen to me because I never dropped acid during the Age of Aquarius."

Earlier today, Bluegill shared the morning's post and provided an appropriate preamble.

Let's ask the old white guys: Revisiting last Saturday's dismal "spotlight" on street reconversion.

It's true: Neither Caesar nor Stumler have business or residential interests downtown. Neither has any particular expertise concerning community or economic development, urban planning, or complete streets. Both have spent years making haphazard pronouncements unrelated to any body of actual evidence to the point of embarrassment. Why then, beyond his own obvious bias, does editor Chris Morris keep trotting them out as de facto spokespeople for (or, in this case, against) New Albany's urban grid?

I was reminded of the following, originally published on January 10, 2015 (the link to Speck's subsequently released streets proposal has been inserted for clarity).

Funny, isn't it.

To the likes of Caesar, Stumler, probably Gahan -- surely Morris -- the most damning thing about me is that I'm anti-establishment, and just as naturally, being anti-establishment is what I'm proudest of being. Opposing the establishment in a burg as dysfunctional as this?

That's badge of honor time, and posterity's going to be kind.

Now learn why we'll be compelled to repave two-way streets.

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Naturally, Bob "My Way IS the Highway" Caesar detects commies and anarchists behind Jeff Speck's Downtown Street Network Proposal. All these years, and he still can't grasp that the number of parking spaces on Pearl Street stays the same, whether traffic runs one way or two.

New study opens possibilities for two-lane traffic in downtown New Albany, by Gil Corsey (WDRB)

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WDRB) -- Traffic is changing in downtown New Albany, and a new study claims to show that two ways are better than one.

Roger Baylor lives in a two-story home not far from the heart of downtown New Albany. For 10 years, he says he's begged the city to switch traffic on Spring Street to two ways to slow cars down.

The best compliment Caesar ever paid me was when he accused me of being anti-establishment. When the issue of reconversion cost arises, I fully expect the emperor of downtown to question the cost of repaving every prospective two-way street.

Huh?

Repaving?

It's because the pavement we have now is ONE-WAY pavement, not two-way.