AMERICANS FOR TRAFFIC CALMING REFORM [Back to AATC]
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Remember no one is asking for an end to traffic calming, just TC reform. You be the judge.

"We Win in Wooten"
Jeff Bullard sent in this e-mail message to AATC, Fri, 18 Feb 2000. Contact Jeff at jeffb@taxremedy.com for more information. on how to stop TC projects. Jeff led the push to fight the City of Austin's TC planning in his Wooten neighborhood:
"Subject: We win!!! Phone message today from city of Austin says TC is dead in Wooten. Am planning to go by and review their ballots and surveys on Tuesday just to verify their numbers, I can't believe the election was a close as they say it was!"

Jeff first contacted AATC on Fri, 21 Jan 2000. His e-mail subject line read:
"Thank goodness I found you!"


To let everybody know how the City of Austin is conducting it's TC planning process is best described by Jeff himself in that 21 Jan 2000 post. This is how Jeff decribes the process here in Austin. If you have experinced similar TC project planning please lets us know here at AATC

"My name is Jeff Bullard.
I have been a resident of Wooten neighborhood off Anderson Lane since 1996.
A small group of "do-gooders" (4 people) in our neighborhood is making a concerted effort to ruin our neighborhood with "traffic calming devices" of every stripe.
Since November they have been meeting with city folks in a desperate effort to spend the $186,000 that the city has bribed them with under the guise of "fixing" a problem that doesn't exist.
Their own traffic studies prove that there is no excessive speed on any of the streets in our neighborhood, including Ohlen Road, the largest and most heavily travelled street in Wooten.
Yesterday I received a "ballot" in the mail from the city transportation dept. I want to fight this crap!!! I have designed a "vote no" button and flyer which I and a couple of other neighborhood residents are going to distribute door-to-door this weekend.
Do you have a flyer or something that could be used to support our position? We would be most appreciative of your help in fighting off this inane idea.
Our APD district representative, Officer Jim Riley, has spoken out against the plan at every neighborhood meeting since last fall, to no avail. His email is Jim.Riley@ci.austin.tx.us --- he is a very good fellow.
In short, please help us if you can. I am absolutely furious that these few folks have taken it upon themselves to place dangerous bums, humps, cushions, diverters, extenders and other obstacles in my path to the grocery store.
There is simply no problem here! "
Thank you, Jeff Bullard
1906 Belford Drive Austin, Tx 78757
453-8544 home 476-2277 ofc