The Trinity River Vision Boondoggle's un-needed flood diversion channel, under construction, won't be anything anyone could possibly see for at least four years.
Before construction on that all important flood diversion channel can begin three bridges have to be built.
Three bridges which are such complex feats of engineering that they will take four years to build.
Over dry land.
What you are actually looking at above is the Panama Canal under construction. The Panama Canal was an actual vitally needed public works project, engineered by real engineers, with no congresswoman's son anywhere to be seen.
Construction on the Panana Canal began about 100 years before the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle began boondoggling, as in construction began in 1904, with the first ships floating through the Panama Canal ten years later, on August 15, 1914.
Are we all seeing the irony here?
One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken was completed in the time it has taken Fort Worth Trinity River Vision Boondoggle to start construction on Three Bridges Over Nothing.
Does anyone know of any public works project anywhere that has as slow a pace of construction as Fort Worth's Boondoggle?
If the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle is such an important flood control project, protecting downtown Fort Worth from flooding from which it has been protected by existing levees for well over a half century, and if The Boondoggle is such an important economic revitalization project, then why is it being built on what must be one of the slowest construction paces in the world?
Can you imagine Teddy Roosevelt signing off on building three bridges over dry land before the Panama Canal could begin to be dug? Can you imagine any sane, responsible person signing off on something so nonsensical?
I can not be the only person looking at this ongoing absurdity who is perplexed by this ongoing Boondoggle....
I think you're making an impact. I think the TRV board is reading your blog and you're hurting their feelings. I've started to hear them say that the construction will only take 3 years. That's probably why they had a groundbreaking 10 months after they started construction (roads and utilities) last spring is so they can restart the clock and say it only took 3 years.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, I doubt anyone associated with the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle pays any attention to my blog or what I have to say about their Boondoggle. But, if they do, and I hurt their feelings, well, I can not put into words how bad I feel about that....
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