[wierdaaron]

Why should the Museum Campus work be a democracy? This city is what it is because of civic leaders with a bold vision operating under a few established guidelines. If lakefront planning was democratic, Grant Park would have been stuffed with hotels and water parks in the 90s.

The pedestrian experience around Museum Campus is so crappy because there's never been any momentum behind improving it, not because of a lack of ideas or consensus. I'd much rather have a decision-maker like Gang leading that effort than a equilateral steering committee of CDOT/IDOT/CPD do-nothings. For once in a generation, the money is there and the will is there, don't waste it on democratic mediocrity.