Editor, The Transcript:
Few issues will raise the blood pressure of Normanites like speed tables. It is a love them or hate them proposition but does it have be?
Councilmember Dillingham often says that council should be making data driven decisions. Yet she went along with the mayor's objections to remediation for the worst of the speed humps recommended by the city council committee, which Dillingham now chairs but had been led by former council member Thompson when the fix was proposed. City staff identified several dozen of the 100 tables constructed last year as so rough that they warranted a need to redesign the test to accept the speed humps from the contractor. Was that not data driven? Is data only used when it is convenient?
The mayor said in a council meeting that the tables were not "faulty" and later said they met all specifications yet council unanimously voted to fix 10 tables. So which is it? Are they faulty or did we remediate perfectly good speed tables? If they are faulty, then why only fix 10 of the dozens recommended for remediation? Sounds less like science and more like politics as usual.
KENNETH E. MONICAL
Norman
