Got this story out of The Reflector… must have missed it in The Columbian.
Clearly, these people intended to make the lanes permanent no matter what the ultimate outcome of the “pilot project.”
My position then, as now, was that figures don’t lie, but liars figure. Let’s remember that this now four-year-old pilot project was only supposed to last one year, but like everything else Portland’s local Winged Monkeys that run transportation do, if the social engineers of Multnomah County want it, these idiots deliver it.
Notice how these fine folks haven’t polled around here lately to find out what WE want? Hell, they’re not about to let a little thing like the will of the people sway THEIR position, after all…. What the hell do the People know? But then, if they WERE to ask, they wouldn’t like the answer. They know it… We all know it… So they won’t ask.
At base, the thing to remember about government generally and especially here locally is they are utterly incapable of admitting they were wrong… No matter how much it hurts the people. In fact, many of these folks supported Vancouver’s efforts to sue their own voters.
This is case study 32007 on why government cannot ever be trusted.
Someone once wrote: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Who knew he was talking about Clark County government?
TRANSPORT GROUP VOTES TO KEEP HOV LANE
Managed lane approach, southbound HOV lane in Oregon on table
Bill Myers, staff reporter
Officials in a bi-state transportation think tank March 31 voted to urge Washington transportation officials to continue a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane pilot project on southbound I-5 from Hazel Dell to Vancouver.
The pilot project was scheduled to end in February 2005.
Members of the Bi-State Coordination Committee, formerly the Bi-State Transportation Committee, made the decision after hearing results of an October 2004 study of HOV lane results.
The October HOV evaluation, completed by consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, was the sixth review of HOV results since diamonds were painted on the roadway in October 2001.
The inside southbound lane of I-5 from NE 99th St. to the Interstate bridge were--and remain--restricted to carpool and transit on weekdays 6-8 a.m.
More…
Clearly, these people intended to make the lanes permanent no matter what the ultimate outcome of the “pilot project.”
My position then, as now, was that figures don’t lie, but liars figure. Let’s remember that this now four-year-old pilot project was only supposed to last one year, but like everything else Portland’s local Winged Monkeys that run transportation do, if the social engineers of Multnomah County want it, these idiots deliver it.
Notice how these fine folks haven’t polled around here lately to find out what WE want? Hell, they’re not about to let a little thing like the will of the people sway THEIR position, after all…. What the hell do the People know? But then, if they WERE to ask, they wouldn’t like the answer. They know it… We all know it… So they won’t ask.
At base, the thing to remember about government generally and especially here locally is they are utterly incapable of admitting they were wrong… No matter how much it hurts the people. In fact, many of these folks supported Vancouver’s efforts to sue their own voters.
This is case study 32007 on why government cannot ever be trusted.
Someone once wrote: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Who knew he was talking about Clark County government?
TRANSPORT GROUP VOTES TO KEEP HOV LANE
Managed lane approach, southbound HOV lane in Oregon on table
Bill Myers, staff reporter
Officials in a bi-state transportation think tank March 31 voted to urge Washington transportation officials to continue a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane pilot project on southbound I-5 from Hazel Dell to Vancouver.
The pilot project was scheduled to end in February 2005.
Members of the Bi-State Coordination Committee, formerly the Bi-State Transportation Committee, made the decision after hearing results of an October 2004 study of HOV lane results.
The October HOV evaluation, completed by consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, was the sixth review of HOV results since diamonds were painted on the roadway in October 2001.
The inside southbound lane of I-5 from NE 99th St. to the Interstate bridge were--and remain--restricted to carpool and transit on weekdays 6-8 a.m.
More…
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I emailed my comments to these people http://www.rtc.wa.gov/hov/evaluation.htm
Who should get the next email from me at the Washington transportation officials you mention?
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