Elsie Hotpepper Points Us Again To Texas Society Of Architects Bridge Boondoggle Info

Last week Elsie Hotpepper emailed me an email which only contained a link to a website, with no explanation as to why I should click on the link, which was perplexing, because I could see the link was to one of my blog posts.

Why is Elsie Hotpepper directing me to go to one of my own blog posts, wondered I?

So, I clicked on the link, was surprised it was to a post from less than a year ago, and further surprised by the info the post shared and the fact that I'd forgotten about it.

It was a blog comment made by Steve A, made to another blogging, which caused me to write the According To The Texas Society Of Architects The Boondoggle's Bridges Over Nothing Were Completed Five Years Ago blogging which Elsie Hotpepper directed me to.

I used Google's Blogger's new "Featured Post" feature to feature this post, which you see screen capped here and on the right column of this blog, if you are looking at the blog via a computer web browser, not a smart phone.

Following is the comment from Steve A which led me to the interesting article from the Texas Society of Architects about the Phantom Bridges of America's Biggest Boondoggle....

Steve A has left a new comment on your post "Up A Creek Again With The Trinity River Vision Boondoggle":

What's all the fuss? After taking up the "Durango Challenge" and Googling "Trinity River Boondoggle" myself, I discovered at the Texas Society of Architects website that the bridges would cost only $53Mil and would be complete in 2010. Accordingly, I want to see Durango pictures of the wonderful bridges designed by the same architect that designed the never-completed TCC River Campus. The article is WELL worth a read if you've never seen it before. Seriously, I guess that makes the project AT LEAST nearly a decade behind schedule and over budget by more than anybody has claimed so far since the bridges cost a lot more even though they "cheapened" them up. 

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How did I manage to forget this bit of information about America's Biggest Boondoggle? Information documenting how far behind "schedule" this project with no project timeline is. How come the locals don't demand answers and explanations for the tardy progress of the Trinity River Central City Uptown Panther Island Vision?

It's not like America's Biggest Boondoggle has been slowed up due to problems with the world's biggest tunnel boring machine and mysterious sinkholes, such as what has slowed up a much bigger project in another town in America.

According To The Texas Society Of Architects The Boondoggle's Bridges Over Nothing Were Completed Five Years Ago

Yesterday I blogged a blogging about being Up a Creek again with the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle.

In that blogging mention was made of The Boondoggle's bizarre Three Bridges Over Nothing and those bridge's extraordinary four year project construction timeline.

The extremely erudite Mr. Steve A read that particular blogging, after which I was notified of the following Steve A comment...

Steve A has left a new comment on your post "Up A Creek Again With The Trinity River Vision Boondoggle":

What's all the fuss? After taking up the "Durango Challenge" and Googling "Trinity River Boondoggle" myself, I discovered at the Texas Society of Architects website that the bridges would cost only $53Mil and would be complete in 2010. Accordingly, I want to see Durango pictures of the wonderful bridges designed by the same architect that designed the never-completed TCC River Campus. The article is WELL worth a read if you've never seen it before. Seriously, I guess that makes the project AT LEAST nearly a decade behind schedule and over budget by more than anybody has claimed so far since the bridges cost a lot more even though they "cheapened" them up. 

How time flies. The Texas Society Of Architects' article about The Boondoggle's Three Bridges Over Nothing was published in 2007.

Eight years ago.

That article stated as fact, that which now seems to be painful irony, that being that construction on all three bridges was expected to begin in 2009, with completion set for June 2010.

Taking one year to build.

Not four.

And completed five years ago.

Are more and more people beginning to understand that this inept project is a Boondoggle? Those bridges which were to be completed in 2010 are now not scheduled  to be completed until 2018.

Why do the locals, as in those who are not part of the Good Ol' Boy and Girl Network who run Fort Worth as a corrupt oligarchy, not rise up, grab their pitchforks, some tar and feathers, and what ever else is needed to run the likes of J.D. Granger and his mama and others out of town before more damage is done?

So perplexing.

Yes, I know it is known as The Fort Worth Way. I also know I will never understand The Fort Worth Way, having spent most of my life in a democratic part of America where no one would dream of anything as nepotistically absurd as putting a local congresswoman's unqualified son in charge of a public works project so as to motivate his mama to try and secure federal pork barrel earmark money.

Is 60 Minutes working on a Boondoggle expose yet?