Bike Utah Valley

So, I did get to go to the City Council meeting after all.  I spoke up about a lack of public input on road stripping projects.  I think the council agrees with me.  The city engineer came up to me during a break and told me that he disagrees with me.  I expected nothing less to be honest.  Old engineers like him were trained and have grown up with the idea that the way to solve all of our transportation problems is by adding more lanes, and citizen involvement isn’t necessary, or even wanted I’d expect.(Us citizens don’t know what we are talking about generally speaking anyway.)  Traffic flow is the all important goal!  As most current thinking and studies show, that is absolutely not the case.  Anyway, then the city council tackled a mixed use development proposal.  I won’t go into details here, but sufficeth to say, I cheered inside when my favorite Council member, KM, voted against it.  Don’t get me wrong, I love mixed use.  This one was all wrong.  Wrong look, wrong concept, etc.  Perhaps someday, we’ll get things figured out.  I’m really interested in what Provo does with their plans near the intermodal center there.  To conclude the evening, I spent a very interesting hour speaking with the mayor and the aforementioned city council member about development and transportation in Orem.  It was very enlightening for me and has given me some serious food for thought.  So, today there was something.  I can’t wait to see what I’ll write about tomorrow.  A new blog perhaps?