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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