>>>Why doesn't the DOT have the engineers they hired review it? What on earth do they normally do when citizens submit their own reports that aren't as proficient? Just totally disregard them?
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>>The way I read it:
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>>- anyone, not just engineers, can petition your DoT
>>- there is no limitation on the quality of petitions submitted. One would think, the higher, the better
>>- the work was never claimed to be that of a professional engineer
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>>Lacy's complaint does not address the content of the petition at all. It's a direct attack on Cox - ad hominem - despite his protestations to the contrary:
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>I think you misunderstood my message. I didn't do a very good job again. I meant that I wonder if they are normally dismissing anything submitted by the public since it is not done by engineers but cannot dismiss this one because it appears to be professionally done so they took the personal attack route instead. I'd have to do some research, but I do not recall any stories where the citizens won unless there was a large group of businessmen complaining about something they planned to do.


cynical self assumes they hope for sloppy submits and offer to have a buddy engineer spruce it up. Cannot have such a racket disturbed by unlicensed good work...