Residents awoke to the local newspaper’s report about a new bridge location and the shifting of the town’s main arterial route through their back streets. There was no prior notice and the exact details were covered by the large blob of blue over a map, but the council was adamant that this was it. So adamant that they described four options of their own invention, with no public input, selected their preferred one and gave the residents a choice between Option C and… no, that was it, just Option C.
