And Trinity toll road backers are trusting the Corps of Engineers WHY?

Turns out the Army Corps of Engineers’ post-Katrina upgrades to New Orleans levees only provide about 6 inches of additional flood relief rather than the 5.5 feet initially claimed. The ACE buried the 6-inch figure in an appendix in its voluminous report on levee upgrades. That led to this assessment by an outside engineering expert:

Ivor van Heerden, a hurricane and levee expert with Louisiana State University, said the mistakes are the latest example of sloppiness and a lack of scientific peer review in Corps’ work

“It’s peoples lives we’re playing with and all we’re getting is fuzzy science,” van Heerden said.

Isn’t fuzzy science how a four-lane parkway expanded to a four- six-lane toll road in the first place?