Holy shit, Jim. This explains everything. Now I am really mad.
Next time I hear one of those Keep on truck'in pave the Trinity crowd tell me this is good for our air I am going to punch them in the face.

Nice work Jim. I've often wondered who the "prime mover" behind this road was, and I think you've found it. I believe that when something fishy is going down, all you have to do is find out who will benefit most to find out who the instigator is. I couldn't figure it out till now. Sure, you've got assorted property owners who want to make a buck, the NTTA who wants that government money, but Allen group looks to benefit the most from this road. I bet they are freaking out right about now, knowing their toll road is gonna get voted down.

I keep telling my friends how I asked Mayor Leppert about Hazardous Cargo traffic rolling through the floodway and how it was the major reason I will be voting NO. If a truck hauling pesticides, herbicides, or any kind of petroleum product was to spill into the river, we would have a major environmental disaster. Look at a map and you will see how cities (Houston), farmers, and wildlife could be affected. I know this is a hypothetical situation, and call me a dreamer, but the likelihood is there. The mayor actually said (paraphrasing) "We have smart engineers and the roads will be designed to keep hazardous spills from contaminating the river..." He must have one of those magic sponges that can soak up spills on a large scale!

After we pass this referendum in November, how about another to prohibit interstate and intrastate truck traffic through the city during high air pollution periods? We can enhance air quality and get those federal transportation dollars that the Vote No crowd says we won't get until there is a reliever road. The trucks could use 635, 360 and 161 until the Trans Texas Corridor is built.

As long as we're allowing 18 wheelers to go 10-4 truckin through our park, why don't we add a rail road. Then we can build our park around that, but trucks and loco-motives need fuel and service, so we'll also add some truck stops, repair stations and a rail yard. It's a win/win for everyone. Big business in Big D gets bigger and the citizens of Dallas get a beautiful new park. OK, so the park's about the size of Tse Tse Park and the lake's about the size of the swimming pool at Tse Tse Park, but hey, a park's a park, right?

I think someone pointed out over on the Advocate blog that Bill Blaydes had recently admitted that this road would carry a lot of truck traffic from the inland port.

That flies in the face of the pollution argument as you rightly point out. This information is vitally important for voters to know. People are thinking Dallas North Tollway - this will be a lot different if loaded up with big trucks. We don't need that route going through our city at all.

Thompson & Knight (another huge Pave the Trinity backer) also acts as a "money funnel." They have no agenda other than serving as conduits for the channeling of money from their unidentified clients.

Nice, huh.

As each truck heads north, plowing through our park, each jobs goes south.

The city is going to have a harder time keeping the locally grown produce section open at the Farmers Market with all of the strawberries and cannalope that will be flying down the Trinity Toll Road!

Seriously, I'm glad that the Allen Group ponied up this time. Every time I mentioned that the Toll Road is related to the inland...intermodal....hub thingy, people looked at me like I was nuttier than a squirrel turd!

That's how Dallas has worked for the last 60 years. Buisness wants it so therefore, it is good for Dallas.

Everyone please remember, if you do not want the Toll Road you must vote YES to Proposition No. 1 which will restrict the road in the Trinity River. VOTE YES AND TELL ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO VOTE YES.