I could only attend the last hour of the Trinity debate tonight at Lake Highlands High, but all I can say is this: If Bill Blaydes is for the "No – Build the Belo Parkway" side then the "Vote Yes — Save our Park" side has nothing to worry about.
The title of this post pretty well sums up good ol’ Billy boy’s gist tonight: "The NTTA are fine folks, they’ll pay for the road so we in Dallas don’t have to, and the trucks from 183 in the mid-cities are coming through anyway." Gee, thanks Billy… can I offer you a "Yes" sign from my yard?
Unlike other forums, you had to submit written questions on a card. Our councilman, Jerry Allen, who is on the pro-Belo Parkway side, picked the questions to pose to the panel. Hardly kosher right there, because he did not ask all the questions submitted.
One of which was mine:
"It was stated tonight that the city and the NTTA consulted the Army Corps on the tollroad in the flood plain, and the Corps did not say "No." They are committed to work it out." To which I added: "The Corp is not chartered to make decisions. They only implement plans that already have funding approval from politicians. Please comment on that."
Well, of course, if Allen and Blaydes and Alan Walne had to agree with that fact of the Army Corps mandate, then the "trust us, the Corps did not say NO" and the "it can be done, even though it has never been done before in a flood plain" tactics they spout would wash away just like August 2005’s New Orleans East housing stock!
Always remember that, next time someone tells you to vote for a tollroad in the park.
