The Holy Trinity Bridge

• Personally, I don't think that the Jazz music has anything, really, to do with the bridge. I believe it's there to infuse a feeling of innocuous "partying." Then again, there will be vodka flavored snow cones? How innocuous can it be? ;)

• I think the bridge could be a good addition to Dallas. Can't it only help to have a nice new addition to the skyline? I guess the real downer is the price tag. . .

• "What, exactly, do Miles Davis, Jimmy Scott, Lionel Hampton, Gerry Mulligan and Charlie Mingus have to do with the Calatrava bridge, anyway?" They all, despite artistic merit were financial sink holes in more ways than one?

• That's it? That's the bridge? That's all there is to it? What a lame-ass project. A signature bridge? It's a signature bridge like Fuel City is a signature longhorn ranch. For crying out loud, what an unimpressive thing. Tell us again where it goes?

• Maybe it's because it's a symbol of how this city gets all wrapped up in giant, expensive projects (no matter how they're funded) that sometimes succeed and sometimes don't while ignoring the fundamentals like, you know, keeping the libraries open or not having to lay off huge numbers of staff people. Sure, the local school system is crumbling, but at least we'll have a nice bridge (that may or may not have on and off ramps) to look at. We're only a can-do city in terms of building huge, expensive junk. It'd be nice if we were a can-do city in terms of running a city, instead.

• I am also surprised at the negative majority of posters here. Isn't it being built with mostly private donations? I am totally against the Trinity Toll Road. But this bridge is connecting at Singleton, Woodall Rodgers, and N/S Stemmons. The ramps to Stemmons are already almost finished. I don't see the connection to the Trinity Toll Road at all. When the downtown canyon is totally backed up, this bridge will provide a bypass from Southbound Stemmons over to Hampton or Westmoreland, 30 westbound, Loop 12, points west. In the morning, Oak Cliffers can bypass downtown and find 5 lanes northbound on Stemmons. It looks like it will be a good thing once the dust settles.

• I don't get some of the hatred towards this bridge. It's not the bridge's fault that there's sand in the levees. The steel was imported from Italy because it was the most cost-effective at the time. What's more, this bridge will allow Continental Ave. to become pedestrian-only. No, I don't get this shindig and the "parading around" of the bridge parts, but this will be a good thing once it's done.

• Tom L, I suspect they figure they'll need a bit more public buy-in if they're to have any success in resuscitating this corpse. And as I said, I for one am all a-tingle. Like Bud Powell, this project does not blow.

• Lionel Hampton played vibes and Mingus played upright bass (switched to piano later in his career). So far as I know, no blowing is involved in said enterprises.

• Just who are they trying to sell this to, anyway? The bonds passed long ago, so it ain't the general public ... unless they're gonna need another bond election because they've blown all the money they got from the previous bonds? Or are they hoping that somehow an ad campaign can sway the engineering analysis of the whole situation by the Army Corps of Engineers?

• Will this bridge, with the pillars built on sand, replace the Tacoma Narrows bridge on all those bad engineering disasters shows on Discovery?

• Getting Calatrava to come back to town is the real coup here. I thought he left on the Prof. Harold Hill Express.

• "What, exactly, do Miles Davis, Jimmy Scott, Lionel Hampton, Gerry Mulligan and Charlie Mingus have to do with the Calatrava bridge, anyway?" They all blow.

• The Jazz guys know where the dead bodies will be buried when this thing blows up big time!!! ww

• Man! That latest rendering convinced me big-time -- this Calatrava bridge thing, in conjunction with an 8-lane tollway at ground zero of the flood zone, is gonna be HUGE for Dallas. I'm thinking big and living large over here. Well, okay, not living all that large, but with the new Caltrava bridge we're ALL in the "winner's circle." And three (3) minutes closer to the King's X Cabaret.

• Michael A. Ross will be happy to learn that someone is watching "Better Off Ted"

• Flavored vodka snowcones?

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