Too many acronyms. I don’t understand.
Firstly, what authority gives this ‘manager’ the right to require anyone to resign?
“limit their discussion to DOTD’s selected proposals”
Translation:
“These are the only proposals for which we have arranged kick-backs.”
When we want your opinion we will give it to you.
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD)
Enough with the acronyms that nobody, except people that work at the DOTD, know what it is.
In any case it should be LDOTD, even then who the hell in the rest of the country would know what that is?
Googling news stories its hard to tell if this is a Louisiana state bureaucrat stomping on what the locals want, or if we have a committee full of utopian nimby’s who are obstructing a freeway because they want one of these bike/pedestrian friendly boulevards that drivers hate.
Can any local Freepers give us some insight.
Looks to me, he's telling the "Kommittee" it's time to $#!t or get off the pot. There are no tunnels in their options. He and his backers do not want to repeat the financial disaster that befell Boston in its "Big Dig."
After reading the original e-mail, this appears to be a combination of very poor reporting and a project manager that does not have a clue how to deal with people.
From what I can gather, certain aspects of the project were directed by the legislation that authorized the freeway, or were already been decided. Such as the alignment.
The project manager may be frustrated by the committee re-visiting “old business.”
However, this is hardly the way to handle this matter. He comes across as a petty dictator. If the committee is revisiting old business, he should find out why and address that. Convince them to move on, rather than “order” them. He p——d someone off enough they went to the media. Stupid move.
2003?.....................and they are still arguing over the DESIGN?........................