How can Tucson "move away from road widening" when they just knocked down half of midtown on Grant Road to make room for more lanes and those stupid Michigan louies? The time to get rid of road widening was when we were protesting the Broadway project. Years ago, studies in other states showed that road widening and giant vehicles were a deadly combination. The rampant speeding, tailgating and red-light-running make the streets really dangerous for walkers and cyclists. It's shocking how bad the driving is.
I know there is so much to uncover and sort about the many issues with the university, and high level salaries represent only a small fraction, but very interesting nonetheless. The Daily Wildcat used to publish a very through (and easily searchable) salary excel sheet every year that also included the state funding ratio, which I think is an important aspect to consider (some employees have at least part of their salaries paid through separate grant funding mechanisms rather than directly from the state). Although I am not sure exactly how that factors into the overall budgeting process. For some reason, the links to these files are no longer available, and they were last updated for FY2019. The "openthebooks.com" site is helpful, but I don't think tells a complete story, and makes it difficult to compare salaries among similar positions.
How can Tucson "move away from road widening" when they just knocked down half of midtown on Grant Road to make room for more lanes and those stupid Michigan louies? The time to get rid of road widening was when we were protesting the Broadway project. Years ago, studies in other states showed that road widening and giant vehicles were a deadly combination. The rampant speeding, tailgating and red-light-running make the streets really dangerous for walkers and cyclists. It's shocking how bad the driving is.
I know there is so much to uncover and sort about the many issues with the university, and high level salaries represent only a small fraction, but very interesting nonetheless. The Daily Wildcat used to publish a very through (and easily searchable) salary excel sheet every year that also included the state funding ratio, which I think is an important aspect to consider (some employees have at least part of their salaries paid through separate grant funding mechanisms rather than directly from the state). Although I am not sure exactly how that factors into the overall budgeting process. For some reason, the links to these files are no longer available, and they were last updated for FY2019. The "openthebooks.com" site is helpful, but I don't think tells a complete story, and makes it difficult to compare salaries among similar positions.