Tomorrow's Trinity Toll Road hearing

I almost wish I could be at tomorrow evening's public hearing that will seek input into the location of the Trinity River toll road or whether the road should even be built in the first place.

I have been an opponent of this boondoggle from the very beginning for several reasons:

1. Just like you wouldn't build a high-speed thruway through New York's Central Park, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Los Angeles' Griffith Park, London's Hyde Park, you shouldn't build one through what should become Dallas' signature park. Can you imagine the uproar in East Dallas if someone proposed building high speed toll bridge over White Rock Lake? Can you picture the backlash in South Dallas if someone said we needed to construct a freeway through Kiest Park?

2. We should be concentrating on finding ways of getting people to Dallas, so they can spend their sales tax dollars here, not through Dallas, which this road does.

3. I am against any new transportation option that does not include a major rail component.

4. It will add more cars to our roadway infrastructure, more impurities to our air.

But this hearing is not going to be dealing with transportation ideology, I'm guessing, so none of the above would prove to be valid arguments there. However, I am hoping someone brings this to the attention of the feds.