That would be Matt Applebaum and his cronies on Boulder City Council. Below is a copy of the letter we received since our family has been chosen to take place in the traffic study…
The first paragraph reads…
We all travel and transportation has been an important concern in the Boulder Valley for many years. The City works to accommodate your travel desires by conducting studies, preparing plans, and making paths, and added bus routes in Boulder. Periodically we also turn to our residents to get information on their travel so that we can understand existing travel patterns and work to improve your travel experience. This survey is the primary data source for understanding the travel patterns of Boulder Valley residents.
Matt, my primary mode of transportation is a car. You don’t care about improving my travel experience in your city, that’s been repeatedly proven by how inconvenient you have made it to naviage through Boulder using this mode of transportation. You have fertilized a culture of entitlement among pedestrians and cyclists such that they rarely even look at many intersections if the sign says they can walk. I am honestly not against these modes of transportation, really, but every action I see taken and how the laws are enforced simply pile the responsibility on the automobile driver and let the absent minded cyclist or pedestrian walk off with no responsibility.
It’s the way you want it, but this study is a waste of money. I refuse to waste my time on it such that it can be analyzed to reach whatever new-age/progressive conclusion the City cares to reach. Furthermore, I suggest before you trust these results, the National Research Center should study the self selection of the people who actually decided to participate; I hardly think that part is random. Fat chance of that.
Have fun creating your version of Utopia, just leave me out of it.
