We're only a few weeks into the new administration and it already feels like years. Let's check in on what the new USDOT is up to.As Delahanty pointed out, it's not like he didn't warn us last year. I featured three of his videos doing just that, CityNerd explaining 'What Project 2025 Means for Our Cities' can drive one to drink, CityNerd responds to comments on his Project 2025 video, and CityNerd examines Agenda 47 and cities in 'And You Thought Project 2025 Was Bad'. I anticipated many of the effects on climate change and energy in The BBC World Service examines 'How the US election could change our climate' plus MSNBC on Project 2025 and climate. I didn't expect that this administration would move as aggressively against DEI as it has. Yikes!
Since I like data, I found Henry Grabar's lists of states with the highest and lowest birth numbers and fertility rates.
I mentioned these numbers in class last week when I lectured on population. Welcome to blogging as professional development.
Follow over the jump for the current driving update and the two driving updates that made the most read list during the 14th year of this blog.
Pearl passed 68,000 miles on Monday, March 10, 2025, exactly 3 months (90 days) since she passed 67,000 miles on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. That translates to 11.11 miles per day, 338.89 miles per standard month, and 4,055.56 miles per standard year, which is a lot less than the 18.18 miles per day, 554.55 miles per standard month, and 6,636.36 per standard year between her odometer rolling over 66,000 miles on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 and December 10, 2024. I credit the lower mileage to nearly a month of breaks when I drove Pearl about once a week, driving to two work locations instead of three, and driving the new Volkswagen Tiguan when the weather was really cold. I won't be taking that many breaks or driving the Tiguan that much before Pearl's next driving update, but I will be driving to only one work location beginning in May. I'll see then which was more important in the miles I drove.
CNBC explains 'Why Automakers Are Invading Your Privacy,' a double driving update from August 31, 2024 earned 392 default and 501 raw page views by Midnight March 20, 2025. That ranked it 13th according to default page views, 22nd overall by raw page views, and 18th among entries posted during the 14th year of this blog. It earned the bulk of its page views by my sharing it at the Citizen Connect Facebook page during September, which earned it 360 default and 392 raw page views that month, ranking it third by both measures.
Traffic accidents down but fatal accidents up in Michigan while drivers overpaid $1 billion for insurance during 2020, a driving update from October 22, 2021 earned 399 default and 433 raw page views to rank 12th by the first measure and 35th overall by the second. It experienced a spike in readership early in December 2024, either from web search or a no-follow link, earning it 391 default and 400 raw page views to rank first by both measures that month. Expect to see this entry again in a retrospective of top posts from the back catalog.
Stay tuned for another retrospective tomorrow. I might just examine the most read entry of last year, which should look familiar.
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