I cannot agree with your Dec. 11 article stating that the first Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (NTMP) was a "success for Saratoga's history book."

The traffic-calming actions approved for the El Quito neighborhood are provincial in their scope and do not address the overall traffic issues of the whole neighborhood. At no time did this effort include communication with or the participation of all the neighborhood areas impacted by the so-called solution. Having followed a series of selected distribution emails on this project, my family was dismayed to learn that certain streets would be implementing actions without regard to other streets in the area.

The response provided was that if we wanted something done on our street, we needed to form a group to ask for inclusion; otherwise our street would not be represented, even if actions negatively impacted our traffic conditions.

In addition, our requests that all El Quito residents be informed of proposed solutions, before any city council action was considered, were ignored. Like Ms. McCarthy of Martha Avenue, those of us on McFarland Avenue feel we were coerced into having to submit a last-minute request for speed bumps to protect us from the overflow of traffic that would be diverted to our street. This is not what I would call a collaborative or "successful" activity on the part of the NTMP.

—J. Cauble, McFarland Avenue