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Resident urges Woodstock to rebalance transportation projects, questions Exit 9 funding
Summary
A resident said project spending is concentrated downtown even though all wards pay taxes, urged an integrated transportation plan and questioned the selection of Exit 9 for a $13 million project instead of higher‑crash corridors.
Gopika Govindraj, a resident of Ward 5, used public comment on Oct. 27 to urge the council to adopt an integrated transportation plan and to distribute project funding across all wards.
"There seems to be a lot of people paying taxes, thousands of homes across 6 wards. But if you look at the map of all the projects, you can clearly see everything is concentrated downtown," Govindraj said, calling out Tracombe/Tricombe (transcript spelling varies), Ragsdale Road and other collectors that serve thousands of homes.
Govindraj described Ragsdale as having three times more crashes in the last 10 years and questioned the logic for a recently announced $13,000,000 project on Exit 9. "If you look at the crash data, it's 200% more than on 7 and 8 crashes, but yet you're selecting Exit 9," the speaker said, urging the council to prioritize corridors where crash volumes and daily traffic are higher.
No formal council action followed the public comment; councilors later added multiple agenda items and voted on URA ordinances and anti‑item notices during the meeting.
