The public input blocking improvement is a feature, not a bug. Think about who had the permission to vote, when voting was first deemed as a way to impact the

The public input blocking improvement is a feature, not a bug. Think about who had the permission to vote, when voting was first deemed as a way to impact the world. 'the public' means 'americans' which means 'the norms of white people'. Colonialism, supremacy, violence, the carceral state. (Pardon the redundancy) American traffic planners use 'the public' has justification for the continued oppression of poor and minority people, via highways and refusal of services that would actually help the real public. Texas still has in its municipal governments and public populations, enough people that are disappointed by the end of slavery, that often enough the political will is indistinguishable from that of slaveholders. It's a feature, not a bug.