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Forecasters from services such as AccuWeather have taken issue with the National Hurricane Center's decision to not issue hurricane warnings north of North Carolina in preparation for Hurricane Sandy's arrival.  They contend that citizens and governments might have taken even greater precautions had the NHC reinforced that a serious hurricane was approaching the mid-Atlantic.  The NHC chose not to issue warnings further up the coast because Sandy technically would no longer be a hurricane once it began to mix with non-tropical air.

I wrote in my initial blog post about the success of the Bay Area's Clipper Card, which has integrated payment processing for two-dozen transit agencies and given commuters one easy card to use while they travel.  Overall, the card continues to be considered a major systemwide success.  The continued rollout isn't always smooth though, as evidenced by recent bickering over the potential use of Clipper on AirBART.  

Over the past two years, Bay Area transit agencies have rolled out the Clipper Card system.  The single plastic card allows riders to travel across over 20 transit systems throughout the Bay Area, including AC Transit, BART and SF Muni.  Though not without it's technical glitches and implementation criticism, the Clipper Card has successfully attracted commuter support and adoption.  This success has been, in part, due to the use of critical design elements outlined in McGrath and Murray's "Principles of e-Government":