tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057262584896477189.post8403555402990711266..comments2023-03-07T02:03:23.535-08:00Comments on Poway Blog: Honk if you believe this!Chris Crusehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06489810250555135219noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057262584896477189.post-2039277796167913532011-05-26T14:21:04.233-07:002011-05-26T14:21:04.233-07:00It's quite disturbing --- but certainly not su...It's quite disturbing --- but certainly not surprising --- to learn that the City of Poway is up to its usual shenanigans.<br /><br />In an effort to accommodate Wal-Mart – with its upcoming SuperCenter approval vote -- the city has obviously decided to alter the criteria and methodology for its annual traffic flow analysis report. Here we are in 2011 and the traffic analysis method that’s been used for 15 years has suddenly been revised --- just in time to make things easier for Wal-Mart to gain approval.<br /><br />It’s amazing how all of Poway’s major traffic points near Community at Poway Road and Midland at Poway Road have magically been upgraded on the latest report. Talk about “cooking the books” and manipulating the data!!!<br /><br />Anyone who lives near the core of South Poway can easily predict that traffic near the Wal-Mart site will become seriously worse than it already is if Wal-Mart’s SuperCenter is added here. This is just basic common sense -- as we all know most of the customers shopping at the SuperCenter will come from outside of Poway. It is absurd for the city (and council members) to assume that residents will not figure this out and to claim that SuperCenter traffic impacts will be minimal.<br /><br />I hope Poway residents and voters are paying attention to all of this shady traffic analysis manipulation stuff. Any council member who votes to approve the Wal-Mart SuperCenter certainly does not have the basic interests of South Poway area residents in mind. No doubt Poway voters will remember which council members voted “YES” for Wal-Mart’s SuperCenter when the next election comes around.NEWS_FLASHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1057262584896477189.post-4155566522138984072011-05-24T17:12:45.384-07:002011-05-24T17:12:45.384-07:00Excellent analysis. This is the kind of informed, ...Excellent analysis. This is the kind of informed, detailed information needed to stop the expansion of WalMart.Pete Saxonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03718160514353200461noreply@blogger.com