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Conan776 t1_j9ujwbb wrote

"Hey good news! We've gotten a ton of money in the budget to deal with slow zones this year."

"Finally! So, how are we going to spend it?"

"Well, that's a stupid question. We're going to develop an app or something. What else would we do with it?"

"No, you are right. Makes perfect sense."

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Funktapus t1_j9uud8r wrote

It’s not an app, it’s a pdf of all the slow zones they need to fix

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CitationNeededBadly t1_j9ux06i wrote

So, they got 100 million to fix slow zones. They spent 1 million to collect and analyze data for internal purposes, like what they should fix first. They spent another 100k to make that data accessible to the public. I don't see the problem. * these are made up numbers but the orders of magnitude are the point - fixing the slow zones is gonna cost waaaaay more than just making a dashboard, and collecting the data in the first place as already necessary as a prerequisite for actually fixing stuff.

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deptofeducation t1_j9wqpuv wrote

This data's already collected. Doesn't take much to develop a dashboard for public use and transparency. There were hundreds of complaints about the lack of transparency last week, and now there are complaints about the spending on being transparent...

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