The ranking holds until someone moves a weight

Anyone who has built a prioritization matrix knows it. Every criterion comes from a different file, the weights get argued in the meeting, and the ranking looks firm until someone asks what happens if cost counts double. Then it's back to the spreadsheet.

One case on our Try page: intersections ranked for a Safety Action Plan. Yesper built the matrix, traced every value to its source and re-ranked it across all 3,125 weight combinations. One intersection came first every time. Another made the cut only because of a count taken during a trail detour. The regular count puts it ninth.

You know which ranks hold and which hang on one weight or one count week before the list goes out, not after. Same for any project list, any weighting, and the rest of the Try page: trip distribution for an active transportation plan, utility conflicts at a roundabout.

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