John,

Stop me if you've heard this one before:

You're an active citizen who's been working hard for years to get your city officials—heck, any city official—to treat your city's stroads like the public health crisis they are.

And then one day, finally, you find your champion.

Maybe she suggests a road diet on that too-fast stretch of road between the elementary school and the bus stop. Maybe he promises to talk to the planning department about getting a sidewalk put in at that place where countless pedestrians are forced to walk alongside speeding traffic.

And then your champion comes back to you, but they have some bad news: the engineers say it can't be done.

Today, another engineer is weighing in about those moments when even our best public servants can't get a common-sense safety project completed because the pros claim it's impossible.

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That engineer, of course, is our president Chuck Marohn. And he's not accepting the status quo.

Give it a read and let us know: do you think your town's engineers are serving the public will? And if they're not, will you join the movement that's trying to hold them to a higher standard?

-Kea and the rest of the Strong Towns team.

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