"Better integrated planning would have avoided narrowing University Ave so much in 2004/5 and left enough space for bicycle lanes along the entirety of the avenue in the city, for example. I didn't post this idea, but i suspect many talented outsiders feel they have no say, despite charrettes and public input meetings. I've made suggestions and given feedback, and years pass before professionals incorporate them—the exact same unchanged ideas, unchanged through the years—into planning documents. More examples, the now disbanded Bike & Pedestrian Advisory Committee had suggested bike lanes and shared-use marking in 1999, and the City started implementing them two years ago. Eight years passed before my suggestion to accommodate carsharing made the Long-Range Transportation Plan. Meanwhile, folks resort to imaginary planning: Crowdsourced Moscow 2012: A Public Space Game." - John Lam