Dallas politicians bought and sold by billionaire families
The biggest myths I've learned so far, on the Trinity River Project:
Myth #1: Voting Yes will delay the project. FALSE!
The truth is that the project keeps all its money. The prop isn't even about money! It just says that the Crow/Hunt families can't build a road there, but that the rest of the project (the majority of the project) should continue as planned. It speeds up the project because there is less construction.
Myth #2: We will lose money if we vote for the park. FALSE!
The Truth is that The Army Corp of Engineers has been quoted over and over, saying "Taking away the toll road doesn't prevent any money from going towards other Dallas roads. It doesn't work that way." All the money keeps coming to Dallas - this is just part of a smear campaign which was paid for by the same people who paid Mayor Leppert to promote the tollway through that landmark park.
Myth #3: The tollway will help traffic congestion downtown. FALSE!
The worst traffic is at the mixmaster. That traffic comes from 30 and 35E, east and south into downtown. If you look at the proposed tollway, it doesn't help traffic going into downtown at all! And that's where all the problems are. That new tollway skips downtown, and travels to a new industrial complex that will be managing trucks up from Mexico. As a matter of fact, the tollway was just expanded to be 12 feet per lane, so that all those trucks could use that road to get from that complex up and through Dallas. All that tollway does is boost the amount of traffic to the Industrial Blvd where the Hunt and Crow groups have invested all their real estate dollars; and supports truck passage to a complex with Ross Perot Jr has a major investment.
Here's the Ballot for Nov 6th:
To prohibit the construction, maintenance, or improvement of, or the expenditure of funds for, any roadways within the Trinity River levees unless certain restrictions relating to use, location, number of travel lanes, and speed limits are met, and to provide for enforcement of the ordinance by suit for injunctive or declaratory relief and penalties not to exceed $500.
Those "restrictions" mean "no big tollway" and that the Trinity River Project should stay how it was originally designed: as a landmark; not a convenient way for billionaires to get their business cheaper. But the Proposition does NOT stop any other construction, does NOT require refunding (it actually requires less funds!), and does NOT slow things down on the project.
Below is information from the city:
http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/cso/election/Ordinance-Call-of-Election.pdf
http://www.dalcoelections.org/Nov62007/SampleBallot071106.pdf
http://www.dalcoelections.org/Nov62007/EVLocations.htm
Thanks for making our city great!
Mark
Myth #1: Voting Yes will delay the project. FALSE!
The truth is that the project keeps all its money. The prop isn't even about money! It just says that the Crow/Hunt families can't build a road there, but that the rest of the project (the majority of the project) should continue as planned. It speeds up the project because there is less construction.
Myth #2: We will lose money if we vote for the park. FALSE!
The Truth is that The Army Corp of Engineers has been quoted over and over, saying "Taking away the toll road doesn't prevent any money from going towards other Dallas roads. It doesn't work that way." All the money keeps coming to Dallas - this is just part of a smear campaign which was paid for by the same people who paid Mayor Leppert to promote the tollway through that landmark park.
Myth #3: The tollway will help traffic congestion downtown. FALSE!
The worst traffic is at the mixmaster. That traffic comes from 30 and 35E, east and south into downtown. If you look at the proposed tollway, it doesn't help traffic going into downtown at all! And that's where all the problems are. That new tollway skips downtown, and travels to a new industrial complex that will be managing trucks up from Mexico. As a matter of fact, the tollway was just expanded to be 12 feet per lane, so that all those trucks could use that road to get from that complex up and through Dallas. All that tollway does is boost the amount of traffic to the Industrial Blvd where the Hunt and Crow groups have invested all their real estate dollars; and supports truck passage to a complex with Ross Perot Jr has a major investment.
Here's the Ballot for Nov 6th:
To prohibit the construction, maintenance, or improvement of, or the expenditure of funds for, any roadways within the Trinity River levees unless certain restrictions relating to use, location, number of travel lanes, and speed limits are met, and to provide for enforcement of the ordinance by suit for injunctive or declaratory relief and penalties not to exceed $500.
Those "restrictions" mean "no big tollway" and that the Trinity River Project should stay how it was originally designed: as a landmark; not a convenient way for billionaires to get their business cheaper. But the Proposition does NOT stop any other construction, does NOT require refunding (it actually requires less funds!), and does NOT slow things down on the project.
Below is information from the city:
http://www.ci.dallas.tx.us/cso/election/Ordinance-Call-of-Election.pdf
http://www.dalcoelections.org/Nov62007/SampleBallot071106.pdf
http://www.dalcoelections.org/Nov62007/EVLocations.htm
Thanks for making our city great!
Mark
posted by Mark Berry at
7:13 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks for your comments on this, Mark. As an 'out-of-town' voter in NZ, whenever I get a ballot, it is dreadfully difficult to find any debate on the issues being voted.
This whole clause seems suspicious to me though. Even if I voted yes, it seems that someone can still do whatever they wanted and the worst than can happen is that they would be fined $500. $500 is going to be a deterrent to someone spending millions on building a road? Have I misread this? or is the clause worded in such a way that a Yes or a No vote wouldn't make a heap of difference either way?
Steve
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