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Wonder if they are marked for demolition. That is usually a Dallas thing, but you never know.

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.

Vote No has to use a base line, because the arguements and evidence don't favor their side.

As a former student, I can tell you parking is short. Too bad Arlington still lives with '50's thinking and doesn't belong in a transit agency. Instead they pin their hopes on a stadium.

Vote No got their rear handed to them. After Mayor Tom has lied to me on this, I don't know if can trust a single thing he says in the future. It is obvious he has made his bed with buisness, not the citizens.

Plus, if you believe Crow and the Trinity vote no folks, this development will be bulldozed to make way for the tollroad that will come down Industrial, if it gets voted out of the levees.

A couple of facts here. The city of Dallas has 148 miles of freeway, not freeway lanes, but corridor miles. Now the DFW region has 89 miles of regional passenger rail miles. I wonder which option will be convenient to the average person. Also, unlike cities like Plano, Carrollton or Farmers Branch, Dallas has no transit-oriented development guidelines. In fact, there is little widespread dense, multi-use zoning to speak of. It is the low-density, single-use zoning that dominates the Dallas landscape, all of it auto-oriented.

Now, if Dallas were to adopt traditional city building guidelines, which make for memorable places, then a park is a great centerpiece. Great examples are New York's Central Park, Millenium Park in Chicago, or Golden Gate Park in San Fransico.

On the otherhand, every city oin America has built freeways bisecting the inner city and there has been urban decay. Only in america has that happened. It hasn't happened in traditional cities in Europe.

Now, we could take a page from other U.S. cities that are once again establishing themselves as great cities by tearing down their freeways to reunite their walkable neighborhoods with their waterfront. San Fransico and Portland have torn down old freeways. New York and Seattle are mulling teardown options and Boston spent billions to bury theirs. Yet Dallas wants to build another barrier to surrounding neighborhoods and make a '50's mistake by building a freeway in publically owned lands because it is cheaper. I for one want Dallas to succeed and the park plan minus the tollway is a great way to do that. However, the tollway would introduce all the negative aspects of a freeway, but do it inside a supposed world-class park.