How City Transportation Depts
"hide" TC planning from the public.
The Austin Texas Public Works and Transportation Dept did not properly inform ALL Bouldin Creek neighborhood residents of the TC workshops that were being held.
No US postal mail notices were sent out about the workshops, to all residents,no notices in the citys' only newspaper about the workshops.
The PWT broke the basic rule that you inform everyone of what is going on and get everyone involved in the TC planning process...that did not happen in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood. What the PWT chose to do was allow the information about the Bouldin Creek TC workshops to be placed in the Bouldin Creek Neighborhood Association newsletters...which alleagedly are placed on every residents doorstep.
Here is the real, contrived, unfairness of the Bouldin Creek Traffic Calming Pilot Project by the PWT dept. of the city of Austin. Even if you got that newsletter...and were not Mexican American and could read the english only version, if you are not a member of the BCNA why would you read the newsletter. Why would anyone expect to recieve an offical notice from the City of Austin in a neighborhood association newsletter? This is a notice which would change our neighborhood streets drastically and forever, and it was never sent. This same unfair, sneeky tactic was used in another out of state TC project located here at this url. Scroll down that webpage until you see the heading marked,
"What we stand for: A MORE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS:"
The only US mail notice all Bouldin Creek residents recieved were to inform all 2000 residents that the TC workshops were over...all plans were final...the BCNA membership controlled the workshop planning...and you had two weeks to vote yes or no on the plans that had been decided for you. Two weeks...just two weeks, you could have been on vacation and never have known what was going on.