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Newsroom
3/9/2010
A proposal to convert Nueces Street into a bicycle boulevard, which has drawn commanding turnout from bicyclists in favor and property owners against the plan, got very little time before Austin's Urban Transportation Commission Tuesday night. The meeting was streamed live on 590klbj.com Tuesday evening.
"Although we had no real update until next month, I felt it was important to leave something on the agenda," Chairman Rich McKinnon told KLBJ. "To at least provide the real update that 'the real update is next month'," he said.
Four property owners and one office employee who works along Nueces were in attendance. We saw no advocates in the audience. Bill Mange, one property owner, feels slighted that he and his peers waited exactly two hours for the item, which was given roughly five minutes of presentation or update time.
"We're not even given the courtesy of being told, 'hey, don't bother showing up'. Clearly the bicycling community was told all upfront," Mange said.
"Every citizen is allowed to sign up for communication on an agenda item and no one did," McKinnon told us.
Jeff Casey, a property owner, believes city staff are concealing facts which do not support a need for a costly conversion of the street. "The transportation study was done. I asked the person who conducted the study if all their assumptions were inside of it. I read their assumptions. They don't tell me anything," Casey told KLBJ.
Monica Thomason works along Nueces and uses the street every day to get to her job. "They're going to get whatever result they want out of it. The question I have is, if it's not going to do anything to affect traffic flow, then why spent $400,000 to do it," she said.
McKinnon says the proposal will be addressed next month and a council vote could soon follow.
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