04-29-2015, 12:36 PM
ALDOT TRIES SLEIGHT OF HAND AT PUBLIC MEETING ABOUT FREEWAY. DOES ANYONE CATCH ON?
http://weldbham.com/blog/2015/04/28/noth...irmingham/
ALDOT doesn’t want this to happen, and so it is going to great lengths to present the opposition to its plan as a bunch of malcontents, opposed to progress. The stacking of favorable comments at a public meeting is despicable enough by itself — but it’s made more so because it furthers ALDOT’s intention of subverting democratic processes, trivializing the concerns of people who actually live in the areas that will be most affected by the proposed changes, and tainting the information on public input that ultimately will be presented to the federal DOT as it considers final approval of the project.
Nothing to see here folks. A few complainers — but hey, look how many people love ALDOT.
It’s a sophomoric stunt worthy of a college fraternity — but it just might work. You don’t have to be subtle, or even smart, if you hold all of the cards. And, absent the emergence of strong local leadership and/or mass public action on this issue, ALDOT does. To them, democracy is a tedious affair to be shortcut and sidestepped at every turn, and citizens a nuisance to be dealt with as summarily as possible. Quite literally, they think that we are too stupid to care, and too distracted to do anything about it if we did.
http://weldbham.com/blog/2015/04/28/noth...irmingham/
ALDOT doesn’t want this to happen, and so it is going to great lengths to present the opposition to its plan as a bunch of malcontents, opposed to progress. The stacking of favorable comments at a public meeting is despicable enough by itself — but it’s made more so because it furthers ALDOT’s intention of subverting democratic processes, trivializing the concerns of people who actually live in the areas that will be most affected by the proposed changes, and tainting the information on public input that ultimately will be presented to the federal DOT as it considers final approval of the project.
Nothing to see here folks. A few complainers — but hey, look how many people love ALDOT.
It’s a sophomoric stunt worthy of a college fraternity — but it just might work. You don’t have to be subtle, or even smart, if you hold all of the cards. And, absent the emergence of strong local leadership and/or mass public action on this issue, ALDOT does. To them, democracy is a tedious affair to be shortcut and sidestepped at every turn, and citizens a nuisance to be dealt with as summarily as possible. Quite literally, they think that we are too stupid to care, and too distracted to do anything about it if we did.