Attended a town hall meeting last Saturday afternoon in the Richmond district. My motivation was related to a public discussion I participated in a few weeks ago about the local bus system. Bus advocates at that meeting had advocated this past weekend’s town hall meeting as a great oppportunity to give input into the process. Not only that – they said explicitly that the planning process would be heavily influenced by public input. Ok, I’ve given mine.

My public input is available on Nick Aster’s sustainable management blog Triple Pundit.

Prior to the meeting it was rumored that some local merchants were opposed to the Geary BRT system. Public support was apparently needed to overcome the opposition. I went to the meeting hoping to better understand the source of the opposition. I left the meeting feeling like there is little to no opposition, and that the city agencies need to put the BRT plan into effect as soon as possible. Full rant public input at Nick’s.[tags]Geary BRT, process design, public input[/tags]