There has been lots of talk around about how wrong the Dallas Morning News and the majority of the 2007 Dallas City Council have been about the Trinity River Project. A certain publication likes to harp on the fact that only Angela Hunt was against the toll road being placed inside a levee, where that could not be further from the truth. Both myself running for Council and Sam Coats running for Mayor in the 2007 municipal races also voiced the same opinion, well before any vote to attempt to stop it. Placing a toll road inside of a system of earthen walls that were designed to prevent a flood catastrophe in downtown and South Dallas is flat out wrong, and has been from the get go. So now that the Army Corps finally decided the current levees aren't even fit to be protecting the city, the project money is being diverted just to fix them. I guess a collapse of the levee in December 2009 sort of prompted some action? In the meantime, NTTA has even gone so far as to say the toll project isn't financially feasible.
The DMN said I was on the wrong side of the issue, and I again publicly stated otherwise that April. So here it is, straight from the horse's mouth again almost 3 years later. I told ya so. The city of Dallas should stop pushing this project unless they can guarantee the funding to protect the city from disaster and worry about their precious road later.
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