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Read the entire Star-Telegram editorial yourself and try hard not laugh. Or a viable economic development scheme, despite this editorial's unsupported claim that " developers are champing at the bit to start building businesses, housing and other amenities that would create a vibrant district out of basically nothing". If the Trinity River Vision is such a good idea, so beneficial to Fort Worth, so vitally needed, then why has Fort Worth not opted to pay for this project itself, in the manner towns wearing their big city pants do? You know, make a case to the public which convinces the public to vote to support a bond issue to fund the supposedly vitally needed project.Īfter two decades of dawdling along, waiting for that federal handout, clearly this is not a vitally needed flood control project.
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Likely because it would be difficult to make a coherent case as to why this project is feasible, or needed. For the channel to work three bridges had to be built, with just the bridges costing way more than it would have cost to simply reinforce the existing levees.Īnother problem negating the sending of federal funding to Fort Worth is the fact that prior to approving such funding a project must present a feasibility study. Instead of reinforcing the existing levees an absurd alternative was conjured up which involved digging a diversion channel ditch, with a flooding Trinity River diverted into the diversion channel. Which is a little less than the current estimated cost of Fort Worth's embarrassing Boondoggle at over $1 billion. If I remember right the estimated cost of upgrading the existing levees was something like $12 million. The levee reinforcement plan was rejected. The Army Corps of Engineers agreed to support and fund reinforcing the existing levees to bring them up to post-Katrina standards. Yet this vitally needed flood control is clearly not vitally needed, because, if it were, why has the project been floundering for almost two decades waiting for the rest of America to pay for it?Īnd how can it be claimed that this is vitally needed flood control in an area which has not flooded for well over half a century due to levees already built and successfully preventing flooding? The project was touted as a vitally needed flood control and economic development scheme. There are several answers to that why question.įirst off, Fort Worth's Trinity River Vision is not a project of the sort for which the infrastructure bill is intended.Īlmost two decades ago the Trinity River Vision was foisted on the Fort Worth public without any sort of vote to support the project.
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The editorial is actually asking why the recently passed infrastructure bill sends no funds to Fort Worth for its imaginary island. If such is the case the entire editorial is readable below. If you click the link you likely will not be able to get past the paywall. What you are looking at here is a screen cap from the front page of the Sunday online Fort Worth Star-Telegram.Īs Washington spews $1.2 trillion for infrastructure, none for Panther Island.