Mobilizing

For a great review, with charming photos, of what we seek to preserve out here on Hamilton Pool Road, see Ric's new post.

He sent out an email this morning, mobilizing the troops against the proposed Hammett's Crossing flyover:

As you are now probably all too intensely aware, the powers that be have big plans for our sleepy little Hamilton Pool Road. They (they being CAMPO with the complicity of Travis County) want to build a 4-lane divided highway all the way out to the Travis/Blanco County line. Many of us out here have resolved to not take this onslaught lying down. We need to organize. We need to fight. We need to make our opinions heard. Here's a first step: Annie has put together a petition. It can be found, along with supporting materials on this webpage: http://www.neighborsinparadise.org/4LaneHiway.html. If you don't want to look at the webpage but just want to download the petition and start collecting signatures, here's the link directly to it: http://www.neighborsinparadise.org/PDF/4-lane/Petition.pdf If you'd like the petition and booklet containing a rationale and lovely color pictures and maps, here's the direct link: http://www.neighborsinparadise.org/PDF/4-lane/Petition-BookletS.pdf. Please collect as many signatures as you can but, even if yours is the only signature on the page, send it in anyway. The address is on the bottom of the petition. Thanks in advance for your activism. Onward, Ric

Ric and Annie, thanks for taking up the gauntlet.

Minor points: Even though the CAMPO plan has Hamilton Pool Road down for MAD4, Commissioner Daugherty has conceded that point already. So we're fighting a three lane, not a four lane, highway now. That's almost a trivial point though. The three lane road they contemplate would support as many cul de sac subdivisions as they could ever put out here.