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The closest workshop was across the barrier
I approved a straight-line partner ranking that omitted part of the operating question. The correction made its limits explicit while leaving actual service decisions with qualified owners.
I approved the distance rule because it appeared transparent. A colleague could understand why one workshop appeared above another:it was closer to the recorded location. There was no elaborate model to explain and no hidden score to defend. In our controlled review, that clarity turned out to be narrower than the working decision. The nearest point could be across a divided road or require an access route the calculation had not considered. We had made the geometry intelligible without establishing that it was a sufficient basis for the recommendation.
