DMN runs Trinity Plan editorials by Angela Hunt, Wick Allison, Tom Leppert

by PegNews wire

DALLAS — The Dallas Morning News gives space on today's editorial page to Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, Jim Schutze, and Wick Allison, chairman and editor in chief for D Magazine Partners, to deliver pro and con statements regarding the November 6 vote on Proposition 1, in which Dallas voters will decide whether plans for the Trinity River basin should include a toll road.

Not surprisingly, all of the pieces -- Allison's urging a "no" vote to keep the toll road; Leppert's similar piece; Schutze's piece urging a "yes" vote to scrap the toll road, and Hunt's similar "yes" vote plea, are articulate and persuasive.

On-line, however, Hunt's piece has about 15 lines up top which are accidentally repeated; so you end up reading the same thing twice.

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Matt Anderson, says:

I love Wick's reasoning -- we shouldn't build a park without a tollroad because, gee whiz, if a park in the levees were a such good thing and should be done, then we would have already done it.

But then he also mentions that DFW Airport and AAC are great successes, ignoring the fact that they never would have been built if his own logic were applied. "If having a huge regional airport were such a good idea, someone would have already done it!"

In fact, half of his essay could be rewritten to apply directly to a big damn truck route through the floodway.

"If the Trinity River could be a big damn truck route, why isn't it already a big damn truck route?

"Dallas has been wrestling with traffic issues for decades. Surely, in all that time, if a big damn truck route were so simple, why hadn't the city built one?"

I guess that's the kind of editorial you get when you're more concerned with rhetoric than logic.

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Nathan, says:

Wick, when I want to know who attended the latest Dallas fashion extravaganza and how fake their trophy wife looked, I will look no further than D Magazine. When I want to get an opinion on a municipal election, I think I will consult somebody who actually lives in that city and will use the park with all of the other commoners.

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FoUTASportscaster, says:

Wick, your publication has little academic merit. Plus, your blog is little more than a gossip column. I also found your linking Rep Hodge's FBI trouble and the Trinity Vote Yes effort sickening. Funny how you didn't mention that others who support the public not getting a vote were also indicted.