Trinity River Vision Imaginary Flood Control Project Update

Last week Deep Moat III emailed me a link to some information on the Trinity River Vision Authority website, with that link going to the...

Quarterly Project Status Report | September 2018

THE TRINITY RIVER VISION/ GATEWAY PARK / PANTHER ISLAND TRINITY RIVER VISION FLOOD CONTROL PROJECT UPDATE

Is this the online version of the hard copy quarterly propaganda reports which America's Biggest Boondoggle has been sending to mailboxes four times a year, for years?

I don't know.

I would make the assumption that those quarterly propaganda reports, slick full color multi-page productions, are no longer having money wasted on them, what with there being so little to update anyone on regarding that which has become an extremely slow motion public works project which the public has never voted on in any sort of legitimate way.

So, I looked at this online propaganda which details, supposedly accurately, financial aspects and project status aspects of this Fort Worth embarrassment which has been limping along most of this century, with little to show for the effort.

This PROJECT UPDATE report is divided into multiple sections....

PROJECT FUNDING SPLIT WITH TRWD BOND OPTION

PHASE COMPLETION WITH TRWD BOND OPTION

STATUS OF PHASE ONE

CENTRAL CITY - TOTAL PROJECT EXPENDITURES: LOCAL VS FEDERAL MATCHING

PROJECT SCHEDULE

You can go to the the TRVA website to read it all, in its full propaganda glory, but let's look at a couple of the propaganda's sections, such as the PHASE COMPLETION WITH TRWD BOND OPTION.

I have no idea what that means. "TRWD BOND OPTION".

But, Phase 2 of this PHASE COMPLETION WITH TRWD BOND OPTION section has a classic piece of the Boondoggle's propaganda, with Phase 2 telling us "Three new traffic bridges over rerouted flood control bypass channel (dry-land construction to save cost)".

That and a PROJECT COST of $81 M, a % OF PROJECT COMPLETE of 54%, with a COMPLETION DATE of 2020.

Re-routed flood control bypass? There is no current flood control bypass in existence. So, how does one re-route something which does not exist? And how many times must it be repeated that those three pitiful little bridges are not being built over dry land in order to save money. There was never any other option but to build those bridges over dry land, since there will never be anything but rain runoff running under those bridges until the cement lined ditch is dug under the bridges, with the Trinity River diverted into that cement lined ditch.

At least the propaganda, in this instance, has dropped the claim that the bridges are being built over dry land to both save money and to speed up construction. What with the construction of those simple bridges now having been going on for over four years, starting way back in 2014 with a then incredible four year project timeline to build the simple bridges, now supposedly not projected to be finished until sometime in the coming decade.

The latest PROJECT SCHEDULE for America's Biggest Boondoggle is the last entry in this latest Project Update.

So, according to the above PROJECT SCHEDULE something called the Town Lake is the last thing scheduled to arrive, around a decade from now, in the year 2028, about three decades after America's Biggest Boondoggle began boondoggling.

Til seeing this PROJECT SCHEDULE I did not know there is a Bypass Channel North, and a Bypass Channel South, with the southern bypass ready to do its bypassing in 2025, a year after the northern bypass begins bypassing.

One can not help but wonder why it takes so long for the Town Lake to show up in town, that and why this little pond is given such an odd name.

Town Lake? Why? Because the pond is in town? Why not call the pond Panther Pond, thus in sync with all the other stuff to which the Panther name has been attached?

Panther Pond has such a nice ring to it...