Entrances

 The city has spent time and effort to increase the attractiveness of the east side entrance to the city but has really ignored the other three points of the compass. of course, the amount of traffic coming in past Wal-mart is about 4 times that coming in from the other three sides. If I recall correctly, there are about 20,000 cars passing Wal-mart every day and only about 7000 heading to and from Murphysboro, with about the same coming in from the south and even fewer from the north side.

Cars

 I was talking about the availablity of cars in Carbondale with a salesman for a local dealership. He only expects a trick of new cards to come into the Carbondale market until 2023 and they are getting a lot of traffic from outside the Carbondale area:  St. Louis, Springfield, Paducah. Local dealerships, according to him, are keeping prices on new cards very close to sticker price, unline dealerships in more metro areas, which are marking prices up on new cards $2000-$4000 over sticker price.

As far as used cars, most local dealerships are bringing in about 15 used cars a week and those are moving very quickly so, if you want a new used car, contact a salesperson at a dealership and ask them to contact you if one arrives.

Snow Emergency

Today, I guess would get classified as a snow emergency, given that we received 4 to 6 inches of the white fluffy stuff. Yet, there were still cars parked along streets designated as "snow emergency" routes. Many fewer than last year, thank goodness but still, they had plenty of advance warning that we were going to get hit by a heavy winter storm and had time to move them to a different location. Much like last year, I wonder if they will get ticketed. If they did not, then there is no reason to expect them to obey the law during the next snow emergency.