I’ll always downvote posting a tweet. If you have something to say, just say it. Stop being weird about it. Attention seeking behavior is gross.

It’s his own tweet though, so he said it then posted it. Making it doubly attention seeking.

That’s what I meant. I worded it poorly.

Fuck you ryan. No one wants to see your tweets.

I was hoping Elon Musk would destroy twitter to put a stop to this. If I wanted to use Twitter, I would.

I'm so glad you're enjoying my content! Make sure you follow me on my other social media platforms to see all of my content.

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You anti-car zealots are the biggest dopes around. Leave.

I’ll always downvote BulkyMark 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣

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Bulkys posts are ttrach. Some would even call then spam.

Leave your moms basement dude.

Great ideas that will never be implemented.

I'm surprised we can't get a mod to agree to ban them at this point.

LMAO they’re so indoctrinated by car-centric design that anything that even remotely goes against it must fry a circuit in their brain or something lol. Like okay bro have fun stuck on that stroad!!

It’s more so the guy posting it. The ideas themselves are fine it’s the way the OP presents it that’s the issue

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Probably because CT has one of the best public transit systems in the country, you can take a bus from Groton CT to Hartford, you just have to look at the schedule. We don't do a ton right, but transportation is one of the few areas Malloy actually gets credit.

It’s not about the content. It’s about the troll posting it.

And any negative criticism/interaction, he just says interact with his personal website to boost his views or whatever. Could not be more of an egomaniac.

The best part is that while being fully on the “capitalism sucks” bandwagon, he has ads/deals for for wal mart on his site. So also a hypocrite.

As someone who works for another COG, not WestCOG, let me be very explicit in saying corporations have exactly 0 influence on the career bureaucrats writing these plans. However we ARE legally bound to serve the public will.

OP is correct that very few people show up to these things or submit public comment. This is both because of public ambivalence and poor publicizing by government. But he is absolutely wrong that it would not matter if more people did. These plans have significant influence on how your tax dollars get spent, you should absolutely submit comments and take surveys when offered.

Active right now: Naugatuck Valley & MetroCOG (greater Bridgeport) long term transportation plan survey: https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/e7b4edb36c3740ec9be13aa9e9c4bf7e

CTDOT I95 Branford-RI study: https://www.i95easternct.com/get-engaged

>But he is absolutely wrong that it would not matter if more people did.

No, I'm pretty sure I'm write because none of these plans are binding and our "leaders" in the CGA can simply decide to do whatever they want. They don't have to commit to or fund any of these COG plans.

Can we set up auto downvote for bulky posts?

The CGA is almost entirely irrelevant in this context, except in determining the sizes of the pools of $ (though Munis and COGs have access to federal pots as well and can bypass the state, and of course munis can raise their own funds) and the very very rare instances where they get directly involved in a particular project.

Projects that aren’t in the plans don’t get funded, it’s one of the first things that gets discussed in funding applications. State/federal DOT priorities are much much bigger drivers than anything the CGA says. For example we just submitted a grant application under the federal “safe streets for all” program that will fund 18 projects in our region. Asked for as part of the grant, we can point to all 18 projects being included in our existing plans.

Not everything in the existing plans are good projects, but they could just as easily get funded under an administration with different priorities (widening i95 for example). Getting that taken out of rivercog and southeastcog’s plans matters! It’s why 11 extending to new London is dead and buried for the foreseeable future, hopefully forever.

Right, Wal fucking Mart plus of all things. Way to smash all the capitalisms, Ryan.

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I don’t even know what a COG or westCOG is. So I’d say engagement and outreach probably is lacking. First I’ve heard of it

Council of Governments, they act as regional planning and coordination agencies. They aren’t official units of governments but rather associations of municipalities. All the municipalities are members of a cog, though the northeast and northwest don’t have planning authority.

Ahh gotcha, well I’m in Suffield area maybe that’s why. Thanks

Your town most likely belongs to capitol region COG then! https://crcog.org/

Edit: it looks like they actually released their public survey for the long term transportation plan the other day! https://crcog.org/2022/11/public-survey-metropolitan-transportation-plan/

Hope this is helpful!

> OP is correct that very few people show up to these things or submit public comment. This is both because of public ambivalence and poor publicizing by government.

And the fact that the meetings are held at the absolute worst possible times for the average worker. How is a working stiff supposed to take most of the day off from their job so they can sit at a public meeting being held as 12pm-1pm in the afternoon on a Wednesday or Thursday?

Nice, thanks! This is good stuff