Difficult To Understand Toll Road Vote Outcome

Statements currently being made by government officials indicate that design of the project will not be completed until late 2009.

The environmental impact studies, also, will be available in late 2009.

Some officials state that large trucks will not utilize the toll road; therefore, it is assumed they will travel up and down "35" as they have in the past.

Or, perhaps they will go to another undefined route.

Maintenance of the levee system with a toll road in place appears to trouble the Corps Of Engineers (as to how that can take place without disrupting traffic for considerable periods of time).

Plant life and trees are now said to be grown / placed in "planter buckets" because roots would disturb the levee stability.

When the floods arrive, it is not clear what cities the plant life will find as destinations.

In reality, the project appears to be VERY flawed ... so the question is -- why did Dallas voters choose such a flawed project?

Probably because the Dallas Morning News and most city officials thought they had answers to all the above questions.

What Are The Answers?

[Ed Note: Ironically, the City would have probably been in a better position with the Corps, TxDOT, consultants, engineers and others if the road had not been approved inside the levees. The first thing we need to figure out is: what, exactly, is the Trinity River? I don't think anybody has a handle on that yet.]