Just keeping you in the FOI loop. Set the date: October 12, 2017.
Friday, September 22, 2017
Freedom to Wait for October 12 (FOI)
Just keeping you in the FOI loop. Set the date: October 12, 2017.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
TLC Timeline of McMaster TDM Process
We started the process with a letter to McMaster administration in December 2012.
The goal to have the campus adopt a Transportation Demand Management plan picked up when the director of McMaster's Institute for Transportation and Logistics asked to join TLC's effort.
After a meeting with McMaster admin and the Director of Parking, McMaster gave MITL researchers a green light to create a TDM plan.
McMaster received the final report in January 2016. It's September 2017 and TLC is being blocked from seeing the final report, despite clearly being integral to the process since the start.
Why is McMaster hiding the report? They won't tell us.
(Direct link to timeline http://bit.ly/TLCTDMTimeline)
The goal to have the campus adopt a Transportation Demand Management plan picked up when the director of McMaster's Institute for Transportation and Logistics asked to join TLC's effort.
After a meeting with McMaster admin and the Director of Parking, McMaster gave MITL researchers a green light to create a TDM plan.
McMaster received the final report in January 2016. It's September 2017 and TLC is being blocked from seeing the final report, despite clearly being integral to the process since the start.
Why is McMaster hiding the report? They won't tell us.
(Direct link to timeline http://bit.ly/TLCTDMTimeline)
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
TLC files Freedom of Information (FOI) Request to McMaster for release of TDM Report
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Transportation for Livable Communities (TLC) Hamilton has been forced to file a freedom of information (FOI) request in an attempt to have McMaster University release a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) study initiated as a campus and community partnership in 2012.
The proposal to have McMaster create a TDM for campus began with a letter from TLC to McMaster University administration. TLC was then joined by the director of the highly respected McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics (MITL) at an initial meeting with McMaster VP Administration Roger Couldrey and then director of Parking and Security Terry Sullivan.
This meeting led to an agreement with McMaster to have MITL use their expertise to research and prepare a TDM plan for the campus.
Several years later McMaster has repeatedly refused to comply with TLC requests to have access to the final report, which was completed in 2016.
“We are frankly puzzled and frustrated by McMaster’s refusal to release the document that was clearly only undertaken due to our initial efforts to see McMaster take a proactive approach to its parking and transportation issues,” said Reuven Dukas, a senior TLC member and one of the initiators of the TDM study.
A respectful and open collaboration on this file between TLC and MITL, led at the time by the late Prof. Pavlos Kanaroglou, has been overshadowed by McMaster’s lack of transparency.
TLC’s numerous requests, in person, in phones calls, and in emails, over the past year to top McMaster officials have been repeatedly deflected or plainly ignored.
TLC was left with no other option but to file a FOI with McMaster to gain access to the final TDM report, which was filed today.
QUOTE:
Reuven Dukas (TLC):
Transportation for Livable Communities (TLC) Hamilton has been forced to file a freedom of information (FOI) request in an attempt to have McMaster University release a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) study initiated as a campus and community partnership in 2012.
The proposal to have McMaster create a TDM for campus began with a letter from TLC to McMaster University administration. TLC was then joined by the director of the highly respected McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics (MITL) at an initial meeting with McMaster VP Administration Roger Couldrey and then director of Parking and Security Terry Sullivan.
This meeting led to an agreement with McMaster to have MITL use their expertise to research and prepare a TDM plan for the campus.Several years later McMaster has repeatedly refused to comply with TLC requests to have access to the final report, which was completed in 2016.
“We are frankly puzzled and frustrated by McMaster’s refusal to release the document that was clearly only undertaken due to our initial efforts to see McMaster take a proactive approach to its parking and transportation issues,” said Reuven Dukas, a senior TLC member and one of the initiators of the TDM study.
A respectful and open collaboration on this file between TLC and MITL, led at the time by the late Prof. Pavlos Kanaroglou, has been overshadowed by McMaster’s lack of transparency.
TLC’s numerous requests, in person, in phones calls, and in emails, over the past year to top McMaster officials have been repeatedly deflected or plainly ignored.
TLC was left with no other option but to file a FOI with McMaster to gain access to the final TDM report, which was filed today.
QUOTE:
Reuven Dukas (TLC):
“Working with Pavlos and his researchers was a rewarding partnership, and an expression of the spirit of community collaboration that Pavlos made central to his work with MITL. It’s a shame that McMaster administration have shown a complete lack of respect for the example Pavlos embodied each step of the way with TLC.”LINKS
- TLC Hamilton: http://tlchamilton.blogspot.ca/
- Interactive Timeline of TDM Process: http://bit.ly/TLCTDMTimeline
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