Well.
No hill hiking happened.
In this view we are hiking on to the Tandy Hills from View Street, looking north. The summit of Mount Tandy is to the right.
Soon upon arrival the rain that was already dripping at my home location had begun to arrive at the Tandy Hills. So, I decided to abort and continue on to Gateway Park, and then Town Talk.
I entered Gateway Park via the Beach Street entrance. This brought me to that which you see below.
The last time I visited the above location I saw that the boarded up boardwalk overlook eyesore had been mostly removed. Now it appears construction of the new overlook is underway.
I walked down the closed paved trail to see if the new trail bridges were yet built. Well, some sort of cement foundation has been laid. And further along I came to new paved trail, replacing the paved trail that had been damaged for years by a flooding Trinity River.
All this Gateway Park construction is part of the Trinity River Central City Uptown Panther Island Vision, also known as America's Biggest Boondoggle.
Near where I parked there were two signs. The first of which had information on it I'd never seen associated with anything to do with America's Biggest Boondoggle.
A project completion date. As you can see above the sign says SCHEDULE COMPLETION DATE DECEMBER 2015. Seems that they'd need to get real busy if this is to be finished in December.
Below is a close up look at the sign you see in the upper right of the above picture.
Some people who are not from around here think I make up that long name for America's Biggest Boondoggle. As you can see above that sign pretty much covers it all, Trinity River Vision-Central City Uptown. The only part missing is the newest name for The Boondoggle, Panther Island.
Town Talk was a bit of a bust, again. Cheese, buns and tortillas. That's about it.
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