Sure, only if the resident would agree to spend about three weeks in my office to see the kind of balancing I have to cope with. I'll never forget one of the neighborhood leaders in Carbondale telling me that he saw enough of what I had to do to know he would never want my job. In a more serious sense, I think transportation professionals can determine sufficiently what's needed by listening carefully to a good sample of the residents and accepting them and their concerns. Tolerance is just rejection postponed. Air Quality Division Tom Barry, Florida DOT .
Balance is the key word.
It has to fit the specific project or program. Dennis Pescitelli, Illinois DOT . I feel this hypothetical situation would not be experienced frequently, so it isn't compelling to strive for uniformity of approach at the expense of badly alienating a small number of citizens. If the larger system integrity would be terribly compromised by continuing not to address bicyclists and pedestrians, that's a different story. However, we have a long way to go before we exhaust opportunities to bring better system balance to citizens who are thirsting for it.