I’m saddened but not surprised by the Port Townsend City Council dismissal of Scott Walker from the Non-Motorized Transportation Advisory Board.

Scott has been a visonary, tirless advocate and worker for better ways to get aroud our town for many years, and we all owe him a huge gratitude for hisefforts. 

Yes, he can be blunt and chafesome at times; let the saint among us cast the first stone. but he has been clearly speaking a very necessary carbon-cutting turth to car-centric power, and some in the city establishment, David Timmons and engineer Dave Peterson in particular, are challenged by that truth.

Scott will no doubt continue his good work by other means, but the real vicitim here is a culter of constructive, valued volunteer civic engagement guiding our local government. The city manager needs to step back and let the council really hear us citizens before the town is paved over with bureaucratic good intentions.