Fort Worth's One Of A Kind Waterfront On An Imaginary Island

That which you see here is a screencap from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Thursday March 7, 2024 online edition.

I was unable to read the Star-Telegram's article about this supposed new vision of the Trinity River Vision.

But I was able to read all about the new vision in the Fort Worth Report, it being a more journalistically elevated local news source than the Star-Telegram.

The Fort Worth Report article is titled Fort Worth leaders reveal new roadmap for developing Panther Island. Where does it lead?

Reading the article, I was not really able to glean where this new roadmap is leading. 

This supposed new vision seems to be pretty much like the previous vision. An imaginary island, with multiple parks, residential developments, commercial development, hoping to entice a corporation to move its corporate headquarters to the imaginary island.

This new vision reads as a bit hyperbolic, just like the old vision did, with its quarterly propaganda mailings touting the slow progress and the wonders to come with the slow-moving Boondoggle.

"One of a kind waterfront' is an example of the new vision's hyperbolic propaganda.

Waterfront? Have these people not been to a town with an actual waterfront, you know, of the sort where ferry boats and cruise ships and other boats arrive and depart.

Towns like Galveston, Corpus Christi, to name a couple Texas examples.

I do not think San Antonio ever describes its iconic Riverwalk as a waterfront.

See that little bridge in the screencap from the Star-Telegram. That is one of three little bridges which took an astonishing seven years to build. Over dry land. Awaiting a cement-lined ditch to be dug under the bridges, with Trinity River water diverted into the ditch, creating the imaginary island, with the three bridges connecting the Fort Worth mainland to the imaginary island.

It is hard to believe this nonsense has been going on now for well over two decades, with no end in sight...