Mayor Mike Rawlings Wants to "Move in Haste" to Build Trinity Toll Road, Which State Says Will Move More Cars

better have a LOT of "breakdown lanes" for all the electric vehicles  that run out of power stalled in traffic.....how will the tollroad assistance carry a can of 6000 watts of electricity out to an electric car anyway?

I'm calling BS on the states numbers.  Capacity on the new toll-road != usage. The real usage is all that matters, and it won't even get to half that usage, while the alternative will probably reach 99.99%

Hey the Trinity Toll Road goes hand in hand with the great gas drilling plan for the city. Dallas is clueless. It will be an urban cesspool here within ten (10) years if the Toll Road & gas plans move forward. There will be no quality of life here. Personally, I'm getting the FRACK out of this area to back up North where we have clean rivers, lakes, & forests along with sustainable common sense development. History repeats itself. The entire Sun Belt is doomed economically. Texas has enjoyed some great economic success but the destruction of its environment will manifest itself very soon. Enjoy it now before it's gone. Google the story of the Salton Sea in California. Enjoy the concrete & smelly water for me. I'll sure with the fajitas though.

But maybe it will be  serene and pretty!!   What with all the cement, roaring trucks and cars, wind generators and such.  By the time the city gets any of those  mentioned "amenities" actually completed, I'll be dead of old age.  I'll never get to enjoy the smell of exhaust as I lounge down by the banks of the drainage ditch we loving call the Trinity River.  Damn you, City Hall.  

Oh sure.  Those trails and lakes are going to be beautiful when shadowed by an ugly ass super tollway monster above your head.   One more move to "Make Dallas Ugly"...which is the motto of our city government. 

That's why nobody comes here, anymore. It's too crowded.

Sounds like a pay-back project that need to get started...right now!

I think it's time to get rid of that green tree sitting in the middle of the City of Dallas logo.  They ain't earnin' it.

Mayor Jobba The Pizza Hut just lost the Senate seat he'll run for after he finishes his JV stint with Detroit au Sud. Tom Leppert Colony is, of course, a natural to be his presumptive drinking buddy as they lament being persona non grata with the Citizens' Council.

You know what this town really needs to be world-class? That's right. A dirigible mooring at the top of the Bank of America tower. It's the future, baby.

people living in Manhattan would argue that there are people sitting in ludicrous amounts of traffic to drive their crap home from Wal Mart. I'm not sure why their consumption choices are any more ridiculous than yours.

typical Dallas Mayors bending -over and cashing in for there future wrong policies. 

What happened to his 'smackdown' with Griggs, Hunt and Greyson? I thought that he was going to sit down and compare matrix numbers?

The Dallas Morning News story is yet another example of how biased the DMN is toward the road. They play up the capacity of the road without noting once within the story that the Toll Road isn't expected to run at capacity while the Project Pegasus improvements are. The Trinity Toll Road would still move more cars, but that lack of nearly 10,000 cars per day by 2030 changes the financial equation before we even get into anything else. The Dallas Morning News story also doesn't note that its own newspaper has been reporting that the Trinity Toll Road would only move between 90,000 and 100,000 cars per day (unlike the 114,100 in the current estimate). The size of the road didn't change, but for some reason, the number of cars traveling on the road somehow changed. The DMN didn't bother to ask why the estimate had been shifted upward. It's an incredibly simplistic analysis anyway (capacity or even expected usage doesn't give us the whole picture on how well those cars are moved) and even then they're having to goose the numbers to make the Trinity Toll Road the more attractive option.

The 'burbs is why the DFW area has any attraction at all. Prices start going up due to densification.....people start going, bye bye. Nobody wants to live in a sweltering hellhole on top of others. You've gotta have some ball breathing room down here in the Dirty D. It's a fact, Jack! Get used to it or move to Manhattan(lots of suckers there paying ludicrous rent for the urban experience!).

  NTCOG is the BURBS when its the City and the City when its the BURBS

Dear Dallas Mayor, Thank You, Thank you for being a DICK. Thank You for being WHITE. Thank You for finding a Use Less Use of MY MONEY, to fix a problem so a MONEY MAKING MACHINE can make MORE FUCKING MONEY. I pay taxes, I own a business that pays taxes, Property and Sales, so just THANKS THANKS MY ASSHOLE MAYOR. From PISSED OFF TAXPAYER\VOTER.

"TxDot collaborated with NTTA and NTCOG"..... Well, gee. That sounds unbiased to me.  Dallas loses a great park and gains a few tons of pollution in the name of "regionalism".  F the burbs.  

Last week the mayor tweeted: One qt of motor oil washed down storm drains can pollute up to 250K gallons of water. We need this water for drinking. #GreenDallas How many quarts of oil would be washed off the tollway, directly into the trinity, every time it rains.

I hope the current asshole mayor has as much luck getting this failure of a project off the ground as the last asshole mayor Dallas had.