Road design, transportation and walkability

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... Not seeing anything shady here other than some IP being protected by the people that are paying, for said design.

No, that’s BS. We’re talking about public infrastructure that we all have to live with. We’re entitled to understand the decision process that goes into designing it. Also, there is no way that whatever proprietary model (or whatever) they’ve built is enough better than what everybody else is doing that it’s worth giving up transparency for access to the model.

Yeah, I'm not so sure of that.  It's a nice thought, but usually contacts are between two parties, third parties/subcontractors/consultants all covered under a blanket clause in a NDA/CDA and if you're lucky some of it might show up on the public record after the fact (once the tender has been awarded).  Sooo, not sure what part of the design/decision process the general pulbic would be privy to?  Maybe I missed something, like an variance application, that the people in the area would have been invited to attend? 

No disrespect, just trying to understand where the design transparency is warranted in this case