Canute Bolinsky attacks WAZE. Wants to prohibit GPS from providing alternative routes to jammed highways.

Representative Mitch Bolinsky (R-Newtown) wants to apply the heavy hand of state government to your vehicle’s GPS. Luddite Bolinsky has proposed legislation to prohibit “global positioning systems and other navigation applications from proposing routes of travel that direct heavy motor vehicle traffic onto local roads.”

The Newtown Republican represents a district that has frequent severe traffic jams on I-84, causing rational drivers to leave the infuriating highway to follow alternate routes provided by the miracle of WAZE and other remarkable navigation technology. GPS has been a lifeline to drivers able to do what state government has routlinely failed to accomplish: drive forward on roads.

As the Emperor Canute commanded the sea to retreat from the shore, Bolinsky demands technology stop providing helpful informaiton to motorists. There is another solution, Canute Bolinsky. You could rally your colleagues and get the highway fixed.

Published January 13, 2025.