Sunday, June 28, 2009
Dallas’ Trinity River Corridor Project starting to sink into dysfunctional mire
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The Trinity River Corridor Project is getting ever further bogged down, with the latest obstacles coming from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who can't swallow their concerns about the safety. Those concerns have put a two-year delay on construction and will add another $29 million to the pricetag.
The DMN story -- co-written by Lee Hancock, whom the DMN always pulls out of East Texas or wherever it is she lives, for their Big Big Stories, so obviously this is serious stuff -- says that the top-ranking staffers at the Army Corps are all gung-ho, despite the fact that they're trying to build this thing in the middle of sand, whereas the lower-ranking people whose necks will be on the line are not.
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Billusa99 Anonymous
TLep is getting the reality check that he has avoided so often.
4 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
AnnMarie Wilson Verified
If you read the full DMN article.... the blame (ahem) is being shifted fully to the Corp - and not the city people.
Want to know the truth, go read all of Jim Schutze http://www.dallasobserver.com/
Remember, the DMN has been pushing for that nightmare all along.
4 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
the blame (ahem) is being shifted
Tough to shift blame when it never left the Corp. Commented on this previously, btw. Whatever dumbass thought the Corp wouldn't put them in their place should not be paid with public funds, imo.
4 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
ch0 Anonymous
All they need is some big-ol piles buried, and make em an island of American Steel on top! Sand is liquid anyway now, usin it for dirt is so like 2008... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/...
4 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Chris Kidd Verified
DMN and Wick @ D have been so balls to the wall when it comes to the TRP. Schultze has been on top this thing since day one. Lepperts Folly, as this will possibly be called, is going to be a mess the city will be left with for decades to come...
4 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
alexander troup Verified
Well Chris ,, there is some truth about Folly,...but by golly the bill has been written, so we have to say,.. thos who created such have to eat it..... and all of that sand for tooth pick bridges....
When you go out and buy a gold mine, go inside and see it has any gold, dont buy the paper that says it does or dosent,becuase that may be all it is in the end...now who to dump the fool's paper on too.....A/T, By golly this folly is something a saint could not choose..or realize it is a hell of a thing to do if it dont sell...
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