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Originally Posted by mickey100
Do your homework. Kimberly-Horn is an award winning engineering firm in the U.S. It has been ranked one of the top engineering firms in the country for highway/roadway design. The study prepared for The Villages was done by Kimberly-Horn, and has the backing of the engineering firm and was completed and reviewed by licensed professional civil engineers. The firm is a large one and has specially subgroups that handle the various issues that come up like environmental, traffic engineering, roadway design, aviation, etc. There is no question these people are the experts. Why people with no engineering background think they are smarter than licensed professional engineers just amazes me.
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Ooh. Can't resist this one. I normally don't pick on wording/spelling type errors. But such an attitude demands it this time...
If you did your homework, you'd know it is KIMLEY-Horn. And they are a very good firm. I dealt with them often in my 30+ years of being a Professional Engineer in the transportation sector. And they probably know as much about multi-modal paths as anybody.
But I will repeat something I've said a couple times before...there are no true experts in the field of MMP's as they exist in TV. There are those who know more than most, and I would put Kimley-Horn in that category. But enough relevant data simply do not exist for anybody to be considered an expert in the same way that an engineer would be an expert in "environment, traffic engineering, roadway design, aviation", or other similar fields. Large scale MMP path design...the type that intermingles seamlessly with a street system and serves significant population centers as a major transportation alternative, as in TV...is in its infancy.