Traffic was flowing pretty well today along Flamingo heading toward the Strip. It's always great when you can hit a string of green lights, one-after-the-other. I understand there's a computerized method that helps facilitate traffic flow in this way.

I read today in "The Rebel Yell," the student newspaper here on the UNLV campus, that the Department of Transportation awarded UNLV $460,000 to put toward a regional transportation center. This money will help students and faculty with research materials, career opportunities, and training on transportation matters. This is of course, very welcome news in this day of budget cuts and talk of university financial exigency--which is basically a declaration of bankruptcy.

Maybe the transportation center will dream up a way to charge tolls along the Strip or other roads in Vegas to help sustain our educational system.