Angela's prediction and remedy

Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt, who has led the fight against the idea of placing a toll road between the Trinity River levees, is predicting that in the year 2014 the Dallas City Manager will finally announce the toll road project dead. But, by that time, she claims:

Trinity levee improvements have not been completed. Not a shovel of dirt has been turned to bring the Trinity Park to life, and no lakes exist within the floodway. Now that plans for the park have been all but scrapped, the residential and mixed-use developments once planned along Industrial Boulevard have been abandoned.

But it doesn't have to be that way, she writes in today's Dallas Morning News. She has a Plan B "premised on eliminating the toll road from the Trinity River floodway." You can read all about it here.

"We can no longer allow the toll road's delay and uncertainty to prevent Dallas from moving forward in addressing our transportation and flood control needs and in fulfilling the promise of a great park," she writes. "Plan B will allow us to finally realize the dream of the Trinity River project ... I hope our city leadership will recognize the need to chart a new course, one that fulfills promises rather than defers them. "

I have had my philosophical differences with Ms. Hunt, but on this matter I agree with her completely.