[Keith P.]

My impression from reading some of the comments in that article is that there were a number of people who feel hard-done by because the area is home to a lot of public housing and the city has done nothing to prevent their streets from being used by drivers as shortcuts because of the failure to address traffic on major arteries. So in short they have an axe to gring against the city and this project just happened to come along to it made a convenient target for their ire.

As was said, you can't take much of it very seriously.