Dallas voters, vote “Yes” to vote no to an ill-planned toll road; Best Southwest leaders, it won’t help down here

Now, I’ve just moved back to the Metroplex, and don’t live in Dallas itself. Nonetheless, especially with the help of the Dallas Observer, I believe I can tell Dallas voters to vote “Yes” Nov. 6 to defeat the Trinity toll road, and speak to southside suburban claims as well.

Let me start right there. Per Jim Schutze, the only possible benefit anybody in the Best Southwest will get is if The Allen Group succeeds in its money-throwing and arm-twisting attempt to get the toll road to also be made into a truck route.

Yummm…. How many of you in Dallas are in favor of a nice, lovely, park being invaded by thousands of semis? Didn’t think so.

And, if The Allen Group wants a toll road truck route, shouldn’t it focus on Loop 9 instead? And, not just The Allen Group. What’s really needed is, indeed, the completion of an outer beltway around Dallas. If you’re The Allen Group, redistributing from your southside warehouses to Little Rock, there’s no need to drive through downtown. With a completed outer loop, there’s not even the need to drive the LBJ.

And, if you want to boost mid-Metroplex traffic more, try finding ways of limiting access on more sections of Loop 12, and boosting speed limits mildly.

I would likely, combined with other business in Dallas itself, visit a nice Trinity park. One with a lot of freeway traffic right beside it? Not so likely.