Just When You Think You've Heard Every Last Bit of WTF Concerning the Trinity River ...
| Patrick Michels |
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You know that huge Trinity River project we have devoted much of our municipal energy to over the last decade and a half, with the parks and the trails and the lakes and the Standing Wave (whatever the hell that is)? You know what I mean, right?
Apparently there's no money to run any of it.
None. Not dime one. And apparently our astute city council sort of doesn't quite know that yet.
This morning, the council's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee was getting an update on the design for the Continental Bridge, which is to be converted into a linear park. For a while they were stuck on the meaning of the word "bollard," which, I admit, I also found challenging. I was thinking it was some kind of song, typically accompanied by guitar, but that was just my Yankee accent fouling me up again.
A bollard -- do you care about this? -- it's a park thing. A post or something. Can we leave that one?
OK, moving on. Council member Delia Jasso asked assistant city manager Jill Jordan, who will be responsible for promoting events on the bridge once it's a park, "What's our projection on programming for the bridge? Who's going to do special events there?"
Jordan told her, "You have raised a question we have been thinking about for many years, about how are we going to handle the park. Is it going to be run by the Park Department, or is it going to be run by somebody else?"
Not the bridge park. That's one tiny little detail in the overall Trinity River park plan. Jordan meant the whole thing -- lakes, stand-up water whatever, not to mention the gigantic Great Trinity Forest. I mean, that's how they sold it to voters - the biggest urban park in America.
They don't even know what department will be over it.





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