trinity river project (Dallas, San Antonio, Austin: tax, live, transportation)

[dallas,texas]

There has probaly been a post about this before, but I am trying to imagine this trinity river project. I understand what is going on, but is it going to happen like they say. If it did, I think it would be amazing. Here is the link to the website.


Trinity River Corridor Project, Dallas, Texas

I hope this happens, so maybe it can live up to Town Lake in Austin and The Riverwalk in San Antonio.

peace

[cdelena]

It is a road project with river impact. Don't fall for the PR that tries to make it something else... it was sold with pictures of parks and sailboats, but really it is a special interest investment using tax payer money. After years of controversy it still makes little sense. Here is a recent take... Dallas - News - Go With Your Gut

[FarNorthDallas]

With the recent floodings, the idea is being 2nd guessed. I bet the whole thing is re-visited.

[lh_newbie]

Trinity Vote successfully petitioned for a referendum vote. They want to limit any roadway through the park to 35-mph and 2-lanes in each direction. Prior to this, city council had a "park" with a 55-mph, 6-lane tollway going through it. Yeah, like Central Park in NYC would be world renowned if it had an Interstate through it.

[aceplace]

Interestingly enough, only 36,000 people voted in favor of creating the park, in a lightly attended special election.

But now that the original park road has balooned into a full-scale freeway, 80,000 people signed a petition to hold an election on abolishing the freeway.

Yippee!

[kt2le]

It has so much potential but a freeway along the levees or wherever it ends up is a terrible idea. They portray it as a scenic parkway meandering along a bucolic park but it'll end up being a polluted roadway with cars either whizzing by at lightning speed or frozen in gridlock. Anybody adjacent to it sitting in some canoe or sailboat (like the renderings always show) will choke on exhaust fumes. It saddens me to think of what it could be.

[Lakewooder]

We don't need a tollroad at all. From what Angela Hunt told me there were no exits to downtown or the park. It was simply a way to shuffle through suburbanites and those passsing through from point to point. Let them pay for their transportation transgressions.