Bike advocates like Jim Sheehan and others continue to protest ODOT's blindside to taxpayer pleas for bicycle and pedestrian thoroughfares with every new construction project--including the Innerbelt bridge. [2]
Taxpayers want our dollars spent on bike, pedestrian, public transit and green solutions to transportation options--but ODOT refuses to listen.
Residents want accountability.
We know that District 12 of ODOT has been plagued with years of corruption. [3]
ODOT's sudden imperative to install concrete walls all along I-71 and to fell mature trees which filter air quality [4], especially impacting the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood--ONLY forty plus* [5]years after... the construction of the interstate highway--deserves greater investigation.
I, for one, am grateful that Tom Beres and WKYC are looking... [6] walls are not a transportation priority for my tax dollar.
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