BIKE: Envision Central Texas is being killed by CTRMA scam

[Mike Dahmus]

Andrew Wimsatt wrote:

> In TxDOT's Fort Worth District, 8.5% of this fiscal year's letting 
> amount (or approximately $17 million) is being used for bikeway 
> construction, sidewalks, park and ride facility construction, and 
> pedestrian access improvements.  Of the $17 million. $9.5 million is 
> being funded under Category 9 (Transportation Enhancements). 

In order to make this an honest figure, I'd be curious to know how much 
of this MPO-directed sidewalk spending is on state highways which didn't 
previously have sidewalks. It's very misleading to consider this a big 
improvement (when you guys fail to build sidewalks on urban and suburban 
frontage roads, and then hit up the local and federal governments for 
funding to do it later at a much higher cost).

That's the way it works here, and I'm sure there's a guy at the Austin 
TXDOT office who's very proud of it.

- MD