Issues of interest:
- Road traffic controls
- Road traffic problems (potholes, ect.)
- Fuel efficiency
A bug tracking system (BTS) for city work is a concept I've considered. 
Citizens could then file "bugs" and varous departments could manage 
them. In the absence of the willingness of employees, volunteers could 
do the work.


- Logistics of the transport of goods (could be more efficient)
Lots of empty trucks and train cars travel around on a regular basis.
Encouraging the use of local goods can decrease polution, improve local 
economies, make regions independent, and increase the quality of goods.
Local food and other perishables are generally in better condition if 
they have to spend less time traveling.
Margins on goods from chain stores might be higher than the cost benifit 
they gain through Economies of Scale.
- Regulation of household cleaners
In workplaces the Workplace Hasardis Material Information System (WHMIS) 
requires that material data sheets be available for each clearner or 
hazardis material. On the sheet is a list of chemical ingredients, their 
hazards, symptoms of hazards, and first aid.
- Airline regulations
On PBS I saw an episode of NOVA about an investigation into an airline 
crash (Swis Air 111?). In it they said that there were some 
recomendations for industry regulations that were never implemented. 
Some were as simple as requiring smoke detectors.
- Deregulating travel
Most airports say to arive an hour early. While a large part of the 
delay is due to the airlines, security delays are long. Security at 
airports is a good idea, but the methods, purposes and other aspects 
need to be evaluated. Not allowing a nail file through, but having other 
such things for sale on the other side doesn't make much sence. Even if 
the area past security were to be restricted, one should consider the 
people sped through (e.g. workers and frequent travelers). Also other 
items should be considered including the same kind of items as a prison 
does (e.g. anything that can be made into a "shiv"). Even this much 
restriction won't keep all posibilties of malicions intent "in check" as 
employees in the industry must have access to dangerious things 
including equipment for maintencence, fueling, cargo handling, and the 
air planes themselves must be kept available. As Bruce Shnider has said, 
better security would be people trained to look for suspecious activity.
- Preventing insecure national ID cards
Bruce Schnider probably has a good number of articles talking about how 
getting someone's ID doesn't prove that they're a criminal or not. It 
may not even be a relable way to get any statistics on a person unless 
the people in charge of the ID have the proper policies in place to 
insure the completeness, accuracy and integrety of such information is 
insured.