Letter to the Editor from Armando Menocal
This is the third time the Teton County Board of County Commissioners has attempted to ignore its commitment in the Integrated Transportation Plan to conduct a comprehensive study on a redesign of the “Y” intersection and other alternatives before building the Tribal Trails Connector.
This attempt is circuitous and disingenuous: Commissioners are turning over engineering and design of the connector to the Wyoming Department of Transportation before studying its necessity, impacts and alternatives. They expect the public to believe that after WYDOT designs the connector, the commissioners may still say, “no thanks, we’re not going to build it”?
Isn’t it time we ask the electeds why they keep pushing to build the connector without a study? Who stands to gain financially from the connector? What is the public benefit in putting all of South Park into the county’s major transportation network? Isn’t the connector really to permit new development of the area?
Armando Menocal
Jackson