Jim Schutze has a great article this week ("Road Rage") regarding the reason that the powers that be want to keep the toll road as-is. Check out this quote, then read the article:
Wilbur Smith found that if the city kept the toll road at what the public had voted for—45 miles an hour with generous access to the park—the toll money from the road would produce only $70 million toward cost of construction.
But if the city lopped off all the access to the park, limited the access to downtown, provided no access at all to southern Dallas and jacked the speed limit up to 55 miles per hour, it could raise $150 million for the project. The Wilbur Smith study also suggested strongly that the city would need to allow trucks.
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Really interesting developments, huh? Does anyone remember when Laura Miller wrote for The Observer? She used to attack the same kind of city government stupidity that she seems to be part and parcel of these days. Does power corrupt, or what?
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