[Nevermark]

I agree completely, the results are quite inadequate.

There are clearly decision makers somewhere in the situation who just shouldn’t be involved.

But travel is cheap education and research when compared to a city wide problem.

Traveling isn’t just about exposing yourself to ideas. It’s about exposing yourself to how they actually work in practice, pros, cons, unexpected dependencies, etc. while carrying your own situations needs around with you.

You can’t get all that coupled perspective second hand. That’s a false economy.

It would be negligent and unprofessional to not travel, for a problem on this scale.