FHR-Marshall-Inquiry

	Office of Congressman Jim Marshall 12-11-2010 Jim, 1- GDOT (and their various beneficiaries, sycophants, and contractors) lied to you about traffic counts/projections along Houston Road when you were Macon Mayor. On Jan. 7, 1999, according to verbatim minutes of the Executive Committee meeting: You cast the deciding vote - to widen Houston to five lanes, including a turn lane. (reference - http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/traffic.htm) The 6-12-2005 Macon Telegraph article states that you cast your vote wholly due to traffic projection testimony (lies). 2- They (GDOT) lied again in 2005 when they denied that they told you in 1999 that the traffic projections were the primary reason used to supersize Houston Road. 3- Now they are lying again about their misleading traffic projections for FHR. Clearly, this is Deja Vu - all over again. We (the FHR-MT) want you to acknowledge statements 1 and 2 above. And we want you to act to prevent federal funds from being misused due to the continuing lies described in statement #3. We want to meet with your staff and any federal FHWA officials who will hold the liars accountable. Please help the Macon community to get a better redesign for FHR - a design that reflects the needs of the people more than the contractor's wants. Thank-you, - Lindsay Holliday for the - FHR-MT

	photocopies of letters: FHR-Marshall-to-RIP.jpg 7-2-2010 FHR-Marshall-to-Holliday.jpg 7-8-2010
	July 2, 2010 To: The Honorable Robert Reichert City of Macon P.O. Box 247 Macon, Georgia 31202-0247 and The Honorable Samuel F. Hart, Sr. Bibb County Board of Commissioners P.O. Box 4708 Macon, Georgia 31208-4708 Gentlemen: I have been contacted by constituents who are concerned that the needs and environmental assessment for the Forest Hill Road Widening Project (GDOT Project No STP-3213(1)) may contain flawed and outdated traffic projections. They have requested that I seek an independent evaluation of the contested traffic projection studies as part of the Federal Highway Administration approval process. Many individuals in the Forest Hill area believe the original needs and environmental assessments did not include historical traffic volumes and did not annualize the data. Additionally, they feel that the projected travel volumes have not materialized because traffic patterns have changed significantly since the original assessment. I have enclosed their detailed evaluation of the Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) assessment. Their observations seem reasonable to me, but I would like to defer to you since you have a more intimate knowledge of this matter. Please look over the enclosed document and let me know what you think, and if you feel a new study needs to be done to resolve this matter, I urge you to take the lead on this issue. We must make sure we can fully justify every tax dollar we spend, especially during this time of fiscal austerity. Thanks you in advance for any assistance you can provide. I look forward to seeing your response. Very truly yours, Enclosure JM:tn Timothy M. Nelson, CPA Office of Congressman Jim Marshall Phone: 202-225-6531 - Fax: 202-225-3013 Email: tim.nelson@mail.house.gov

FHR - Neighborhood Reps

- Carol Lystlund <clyst@att.net>
730 Forest Hill Rd.
Macon 31210

- Lindsay Holliday <teeth@mindspring.com>
744 Forest Hill Rd.
Macon 31210

- Susan Hanberry Martin <shanberry@stratford.org>
4831 Guerry Drive
Macon 31210

- Dan Fischer <FISCHER_DP@Mercer.edu>
489 Ashville Drive
Macon 31210

- Alice Boyd <dmbx1@cox.net>
540 Forest Hill Rd
Macon 31210

Subject: Forest Hill Road letter from Rep Marshall 10-05-10

Troy and Tim,

I appreciate your help with the Forest Hill Road issues so far.

I have received the letter from Rep Marshall to me dated October 5, 2010 which I have posted here:
http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/Marshall_20101005.jpg

Rep Marshall's letter refers to an enclosed letter written to Mayor Reichert and to Chairman Hart. I did not receive that enclosure.

I did however receive these 4 enclosed pages:
http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/Marshall_20101005b.jpg
http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/Marshall_20101005c.jpg
http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/Marshall_20101005d.jpg
http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/Marshall_20101005e.jpg

Subject: RE: Forest Hill Road letter from Rep Marshall 10-05-10
Cc: Troy.Windham@mail.house.gov
10/14/2010

Tim,
Thank you for the prompt clarification.

We are currently analyzing the GDOT letters you sent to us. They seem to be simply restating the same fallacious methods/results that were exposed by the 6-12-2005 Macon Telegraph article (link)
http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/traffic.htm
wherein we see that (then Mayor) Jim Marshall was duped by the GDOT contractor's lies. This resulted in $ millions being mis-spent on an incorrectly classified road project - Houston Rd in Macon.
There should be consequences for those who continue lie to the public and to our elected officials.

I will send to you all our further analysis when it is flesh out.
Thanks again,
- Lindsay

	Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:35:11 -0400 Subject: RE: Forest Hill Road Letter From: Troy Windham <troy.windham@mail.house.gov> To: teeth@mindspring.com Dr. Holliday, Please see the letter addressed to Chairman Hart and Mayor Reichert below. Let me know if you have any thoughts. -Troy Troy Windham Office of Congressman Jim Marshall O:478-464-0255 F:478-464-0277 troy.windham@mail.house.gov ------------------------------------------- From: Nelson, Tim Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 10:52:54 AM To: Windham, Troy Subject: RE: FW: Forest Hill Road meeting 2010 June17 follow up issues Auto forwarded by a Rule Dr. Holliday will get a hard copy cc in a few days. You can send an e-copy if you would like / think it will help. Timothy M. Nelson, CPA Office of Congressman Jim Marshall Phone: 202-225-6531 - Fax: 202-225-3013 Email: tim.nelson@mail.house.gov From: Windham, Troy Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 10:52 AM To: Nelson, Tim Subject: Re: FW: Forest Hill Road meeting 2010 June17 follow up issues I'm guessing this was shared with Dr. Holliday et al. If not is it okay to send to them as well? Troy From: Nelson, Tim To: Windham, Troy Sent: Fri Jul 02 16:11:09 2010 Subject: RE: FW: Forest Hill Road meeting 2010 June17 follow up issues This is what we are going to send out: July 2, 2010 The Honorable Robert Reichert City of Macon P.O. Box 247 Macon, Georgia 31202-0247 The Honorable Samuel F. Hart, Sr. Bibb County Board of Commissioners P.O. Box 4708 Macon, Georgia 31208-4708 Gentlemen: I have been contacted by constituents who are concerned that the needs and environmental assessment for the Forest Hill Road Widening Project (GDOT Project No STP-3213(1)) may contain flawed and outdated traffic projections. They have requested that I seek an independent evaluation of the contested traffic projection studies as part of the Federal Highway Administration approval process. Many individuals in the Forest Hill area believe the original needs and environmental assessments did not include historical traffic volumes and did not annualize the data. Additionally, they feel that the projected travel volumes have not materialized because traffic patterns have changed significantly since the original assessment. I have enclosed their detailed evaluation of the Georgia Department of Transportation's (GDOT) assessment. Their observations seem reasonable to me, but I would like to defer to you since you have a more intimate knowledge of this matter. Please look over the enclosed document and let me know what you think, and if you feel a new study needs to be done to resolve this matter, I urge you to take the lead on this issue. We must make sure we can fully justify every tax dollar we spend, especially during this time of fiscal austerity. Thanks you in advance for any assistance you can provide. I look forward to seeing your response. Very truly yours, Enclosure JM:tn Timothy M. Nelson, CPA Office of Congressman Jim Marshall Phone: 202-225-6531 - Fax: 202-225-3013 Email: tim.nelson@mail.house.gov From: Windham, Troy Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:57 AM To: Nelson, Tim Subject: FW: FW: Forest Hill Road meeting 2010 June17 follow up issues Federal tie-in info on the Forest Hill Project. See below. Troy C. Windham U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall (GA-8th) 682 Cherry Street, Suite 300 Macon, GA 31201-7388 Office: 478-464-0255 Toll Free:877-464-0255 Fax: 478-464-0277 Troy.Windham@mail.house.gov From: Holliday Dental [ mailto:teeth@mindspring.com] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 4:27 PM To: Windham, Troy Subject: Re: FW: Forest Hill Road meeting 2010 June17 follow up issues It is my understanding that there are several million $ of federal matching funds in the construction phase of this (FHR) project. also, FHWA has repeatedly reviewed and OKed the Environmental Assessment for the FHR project which contains the [flawed] traffic projections. so Although there may not be a federal road number, FHWA's approval of the GDOT documents has been required for this project to move towards completion. At 03:31 PM 6/25/2010, you wrote: Dr. Holliday, I talked with Jim about this. He said we should ask. But he also said he thought FHWA would decline since this is not a Federal highway and there is no money to meet Federal priorities, let alone branching out into a state/local dispute. Jim also mentioned to me that he told Don Tussing around the time that the new mall was built that he thought traffic count projections for Forest Hill road should go down since the old mall would lose business. He mentioned that Tussing replied that the traffic count actually goes up with the addition of the new mall. He thought you should ask Tussing whether he was relying on Moreland or some independent study. I've cc'd our legislative director, Tim Nelson, on this email. He will likely handle the request with FHWA. Troy C. Windham Office of Congressman Jim Marshall (GA-8) Office: (478) 464-0255 Fax: (478) 464-0277 Cell: (478) 290-0913 ------------------------------------------- From: Holliday Dental[ SMTP:TEETH@MINDSPRING.COM] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 11:13:25 AM To: Windham, Troy Cc: Carol Lystlund; Lindsay Holliday; Susan Hanberry Martin; mermaidlover@bellsouth.net ; Dan Fischer; fischer.daniel@att.net; Alice Boyd; Doug169@bellsouth.net Subject: Forest Hill Road meeting 2010 June17 follow up issues Auto forwarded by a Rule Dear Mr Windham, I sent the email (below) to the GDOT officials last week who attended our Forest Hill Road (FHR) neighborhood meeting. I also sent a copy to Senator Robert Brown's assistant, Doug Bennett. I have not heard back from anyone yet. Is there any way that your office could ask FHWA for an "independent evaluation" of the contested traffic projection studies? I would be happy to provide them with all the information that I have about this controversy. Thank-you for attending the FHR meeting with us, Sincerely, - Lindsay copies to the FHR Mediation Team and to Doug Bennett Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:52:03 -0400 To: bhilliard@dot.ga.gov, From: Holliday Dental <teeth@mindspring.com> Subject: Forest Hill Road meeting 20100617 followup issues Cc: Clinton Ford <cford@dot.ga.gov >,"Buchan, Ben" <bbuchan@dot.ga.gov> Bobby Hilliard, P.E. bhilliard@dot.ga.gov, GDOT State Program Delivery Engineer 600 West Peachtree Street 25th Floor Atlanta, GA 30308 office (404) 631-1122 fax 631-1588 cell 308-4954 www.dot.ga.gov Dear Mr Hilliard, Thank you for coming down to attend our meeting with Senator Robert Brown and Macon citizens on Forest Hill Road last Thursday evening, After the meeting, you asked me to email to you documents/studies produced for us by Mr Rick Chellman. I have placed hyperlinks to two of the Chellman documents on our meeting-review webpage here: http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/Meeting_20100617.htm Please be aware that Chellman's traffic projections are a bit high because Moreland-Altobelli (MAAI) gave him incorrect (inflated) data for 2007. It is my understanding that GDOT policy requires traffic projection models must "fit" the latest 5 years of historical traffic counts. Please note that the Moreland-Altobelli (MAAI) traffic projection model for Forest Hill Rd does not fit the past 5 years of historical traffic count data. Moreland's projections diverge widely (and wildly) from the latest 10 years of GDOT's own traffic counts. Therefore, would not GDOT policy require the incorrect Moreland projections to be removed from the Environmental Assessment (EA)? We have produced the newest traffic projections that fit GDOT policy on methodology. This document is webposted here: http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/FHR_Traffic-EA-Sholl_20100210.pdf We may have handed you a hard copy of this document at the meeting. Mr. Chellman did not address the Storm Water errors in the EA. One of the several hydrologic errors in the EA pertains to the perennial stream that flows under my driveway at 744 Forest Hill Rd. This stream is incorrectly categorized as an intermittent stream. Several hundred feet of this stream are projected to be heavily impacted by Moreland's designs. Thank-you again, - Lindsay D Holliday
	Mr. Chellman’s contact information is: Chester "Rick" Chellman, P.E. Principal TND Engineering 430 Richards Avenue Portsmouth, NH USA 03801 www.TNDEngineering.com 603-373-8651 (Office) 603-479-7195 (Mobile) 877-299-6212 (Fax)
	Chellman's 3-29-08 letter: http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/Forest_Hill_Road_Observations_Chellman.pdf includes re-aligned Wimbish-Northminster Chellmans 4-5-08 letter (here) AASHTO guidelines

	Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:18:14 -0400 To: fraudnet@gao.gov From: Holliday Dental <teeth@mindspring.com> Subject: Forest Hill Road project in Macon, GA - requesting a review by GAO Cc: Troy Windham <troy.windham@mail.house.gov>, Tim Nelson CPA <tim.nelson@mail.house.gov>, Lindsay Holliday <teeth@mindspring.com>,Carol Lystlund <clyst@att.net>, Alice Boyd <dmbx1@cox.net>,Daniel P. Fischer <FISCHER_DP@mercer.edu>, Susan Hanberry Martin <shanberry@stratford.org>, Mrs Lee Martin <mermaidlover@bellsouth.net>, FraudNet/Reporting Fraud http://gao.gov/fraudnet/fraudnet.htm GAO FraudNet 441 G Street NW Mail Stop 4T21 Washington, DC 20548 Dear Sirs: Contractors for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) have manipulated traffic projections in order to unnecessarily super-size a road project in Macon, Georgia. This questionable and controversial road project is estimated to cost (sharing) the federal government $10-30 Million. Can you help us to initiate a review and investigation of this road project? Please reference emails and other data linked at this website: http://www.macon-bibb.com/FHR/FHR-Letter-to-GDOT_20100927.htm Please have someone contact me. Please also copy the other members of the Forest Hill Road Mediation Team listed below. Thank-you, - Lindsay D Holliday - The Forest Hill Rd Neighborhood Mediation Team: - Carol Lystlund <clyst@att.net> 730 Forest Hill Rd. Macon 31210 - Lindsay Holliday <teeth@mindspring.com> 744 Forest Hill Rd. Macon 31210 - Susan Hanberry Martin <shanberry@stratford.org> 4831 Guerry Drive Macon 31210 - Dan Fischer <FISCHER_DP@Mercer.edu> 489 Ashville Drive Macon 31210 - Alice Boyd <dmbx1@cox.net> 540 Forest Hill Rd Macon 31210

	From: Fraud <Fraud@gao.gov> To: "'teeth@mindspring.com'" <teeth@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:06 Subject: Foresst Hill Road Project (GAO Fraudnet Control #56567) The GAO Fraudnet is in receipt of your 10/8/10 e-mail message requesting GAO review the Forest Hill Road project in Macon, GA. We have reviewed your information and found that the situation you describe is not within the scope of any on-going work. Therefore, in accordance with GAO Fraudnet policy to forward reports of wrongdoing to executive agencies, we referred your e-mail message to the Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for their review. The OIG is tasked with investigative fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagment within DOT programs. If you have additional information you may provide it to the OIG via their e-mail address of hotline@oig.dot.gov or their toll free phone number of 1.800.424.9071. We will retain your information on file for consideration in our future work. Thank you for your interest. GAO Fraudnet
	Contact: Lindsay Holliday <teeth@mindspring.com> 478-742-8699