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by casperitl
08 Aug 2023 14:40
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: SW Dallas: Big Cedar Wilderness
Replies: 4
Views: 2736

Re: SW Dallas: Big Cedar Wilderness

Apparently DORBA did a lot of things on that property and illegally trespassing on adjacent properties that have angered area homeowners. Looks like the City of Dallas is taking them to court over it. This will take a lot of work to fix trees cut down, bad design of trails and dangerous bridges.
by casperitl
18 Jul 2023 15:46
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

The corps really loves the levees mowed it seems, even if it's counterintuitive or stop-gap sometimes to do so. Or maybe that's the city, I forget the details at this point - I've gotten a little exhausted. But, I'm onboard if this is possible in some sort of reasonable fashion. And, this would be ...
by casperitl
17 Jul 2023 15:45
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Sounds like a nothing burger. "Gateways" at two sites but still nothing between the levees. "nothing between the levees." I don't know if it's our terrible city leadership that is braindead, or the army corps that is braindead, but parks can be designed to flood. Especially a na...
by casperitl
17 Jul 2023 15:40
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

tamtagon wrote:The focus of rewilding the Trinity floodway should be water quality improvement.


That won't happen with the latest plan.
by casperitl
26 Apr 2023 15:17
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity Strand Trail
Replies: 9
Views: 14171

Re: Trinity Strand Trail

Looks like most of the upgraded amenities are going away for this trail. Lighting, electrical conduits and other upgrades. Not what was promised but what will be delivered. It will be utilitarian and that's about it. The trail was always going to be this way. It needed fluff to sell it to the City C...
by casperitl
15 Sep 2022 15:06
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Dallas Water Commons
Replies: 16
Views: 5572

Re: Dallas Water Commons

Some of the same out of town consultants who led the City of Dallas down the dead end road with the Trinity River Park are consulting this project. What could go wrong? Who is still listening to these people? Why? Their mission to deliver a park is a failure. Now this? Really? Go away.
by casperitl
15 Sep 2022 15:02
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: Fair Park
Replies: 165
Views: 138156

Re: Fair Park

^ which renovation was that? The one before the ice storm or the one after the ice storm that flooded the whole place out? Incompetence runs rampant there.
by casperitl
14 Sep 2022 14:11
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Greater DFW-area trails
Replies: 21
Views: 22637

Re: Greater DFW-area trails

DC-22-04882 is the current lawsuit filed by attorney Philip Kingston and his client Gadberry Construction against the City of Dallas and the Circuit Trail Conservancy. If you are interested in such things like trails in Dallas it pulls back the curtain on the shadowy world of contracts and construct...
by casperitl
14 Sep 2022 14:04
Forum: City Issues/News
Topic: Fair Park
Replies: 165
Views: 138156

Re: Fair Park

This is all about the Convention Center. It has nothing to do with Fair Park.
by casperitl
14 Sep 2022 14:03
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Dallas Water Commons
Replies: 16
Views: 5572

Re: Dallas Water Commons

This is a Jack Matthews project to get the taxpayers to cough up $7.5 million for a private shoring up of his land adjacent to his project. Old idea, over ten years old now in 2022. I would expect in the presentation to see how many pollutants like nitrates and phosphates are filtered out of the wat...
by casperitl
18 May 2022 12:07
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

sell the rest of the land to a developer to build residential and commercial space. The TPC has at least three other stalking horse corporations it runs to hold real estate on both sides of the Trinity River. They are a market maker and developer too. They own RFA 106 W Commerce LLC, Riverfront Acq...
by casperitl
16 May 2022 12:19
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

The Corps of Engineers along with Dallas Water Utilities are going to excavate most of the area between the levees as borrow pits for strengthening the levees by widening them. The big wide open green spaces from one end to the other are going away. Enjoy them while you can. If you want a lot of gre...
by casperitl
02 May 2022 15:36
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Greater DFW-area trails
Replies: 21
Views: 22637

Re: Greater DFW-area trails

The powers that be should name it the Arkikosa Trail.
by casperitl
11 Aug 2021 14:31
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

The new director ran Tulsa's Gathering Place Park. Hopefully a new fresh set of eyes can bring some new life to a project that's stumbled along far more than it has shined.
by casperitl
06 Aug 2021 12:00
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

The Army Corps of Engineers will be using the areas inside the levees as a borrow source for soils needed along the levees. The green space you see now will basically be transformed into gravel pits. Not sure what to make of how the Trinity Park Conservancy plans to move forward in this decade. They...
by casperitl
27 Jul 2021 13:20
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Tivo_Kenevil wrote:Is there a link to the D magazine story?

I never raised my hopes. So I don't really feel let down at this point.


I subscribe to the magazine and get it at home. Their content is usually online a week or two into the calendar month.
by casperitl
27 Jul 2021 12:38
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Looks like any kind of construction will now be pushed into the very late part of this decade if not later according to Peter Simek's article in the August 2021 edition of D Magazine. Since the article mentions they have suspended fundraising it appears that the recreation area is dead in the water ...
by casperitl
03 Jun 2021 12:24
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Almost a half decade now since the Simmons gift was announced and literally nothing to show for it. Twenty years they have promised a park that was to start construction in 18-24 months. I wonder how much longer they can go on saying just wait another two years. The answer is probably forever or unt...
by casperitl
11 Feb 2021 13:32
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

quixomniac wrote:
electricron wrote:

Nobody is expecting Disneyland between the levees.


Actually, that is exactly what has been promised for a decade now. Big time fancy Disney.
by casperitl
11 Feb 2021 13:30
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

^ Memorandum of Understanding with who? Not the City of Dallas or Trinity LGC. Is it with the private landowner I guess or the Corps of Engineers? Weird press release as it says a number of things that really are not happening in the real world. It says nothing and offers the chance for your mind to...
by casperitl
05 Feb 2021 13:27
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

I'm perfectly happy with this being about Real Estate Development. All I would like to see is a nice boardwalk between the bridges and a lot of development lining said boardwalk. It would be nice to have something the size of Central Park, but we really just don't have the need for anything of that...
by casperitl
03 Feb 2021 09:26
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

More important than anything else flying under the radar is that the East Overlook has now moved a considerable distance from the Dawson Jail site at 106 Commerce up the levees to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge area. That's a big move and shift that has not been discussed yet in Trinity LGC meetings....
by casperitl
04 Jan 2021 12:29
Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
Topic: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava
Replies: 148
Views: 115521

Re: Margaret McDermott Bridge by Santiago Calatrava

^ In the story linked in the post above it looks like the concrete sections are at different elevations? I have never been on the pedestrian section due to the closure and I'm wondering if this is a messed up deck or a feature? Seems dangerous given the uneven pavement.
by casperitl
07 Dec 2020 14:53
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: RAFT: River Activation for The Trinity (Reboot)
Replies: 2
Views: 4322

Re: RAFT: River Activation for The Trinity (Reboot)

RAFT was a great thing. It never seemed to have an agenda just the idea of getting more people interested in the Trinity. I went to a couple events and had a fun time. It has become very unfortunate that a couple of organizations with very poor records of stewardship wish to fill that space. Their p...
by casperitl
04 Dec 2020 11:52
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Downtown: Klyde Warren Park
Replies: 228
Views: 173159

Re: Downtown: Klyde Warren Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpUDSD27pVw The Fair Park fountains are already impressive and other than possible height would dwarf the KWP fountain by size alone. Right? How often does that fountain show occur? I almost always forget/overlook this area, even though it's such a wonderful asset to...
by casperitl
03 Dec 2020 15:47
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Downtown: Klyde Warren Park
Replies: 228
Views: 173159

Re: Downtown: Klyde Warren Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpUDSD27pVw

The Fair Park fountains are already impressive and other than possible height would dwarf the KWP fountain by size alone. Right?
by casperitl
03 Dec 2020 09:54
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Downtown: Klyde Warren Park
Replies: 228
Views: 173159

Re: Downtown: Klyde Warren Park

Game changer.. will draw so many more people to that side of the park as well, curious with how this will work with the dog park so close but interesting to see the fallout Wonder who will keep up the maintenance going forward. They are expensive to own and operate. Probably will need to axe the do...
by casperitl
03 Dec 2020 08:54
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Sounds like the Trinity Local Government Corporation has a number of problems with their contractor the Trinity Park Conservancy based on their latest meeting found here: https://dallastx.swagit.com/play/11202020-693 Long meeting but the latter half of it, especially the last twenty minutes, has som...
by casperitl
09 Sep 2020 17:43
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

I am advocating for Dallas to become more dense in and all around the general downtown area. I am against suburban sprawl and low density housing in the urban parts of Dallas. DFW is growing so fast that change is coming no matter what, I would just like to see Dallas be the true go to urban heart ...
by casperitl
09 Sep 2020 12:05
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

The thing is that even with the building and cost of living around the park could be higher everyone still will have access to it just like Central Park in NYC and KWP Dallas. Build baby Build. Sad to see you are advocating against the working class multi-generational families who live there now an...
by casperitl
09 Sep 2020 12:01
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

^ That has nothing to do though with building an actual park. The TPC was supposed to build a park between the levees. That's not happening. I find it super weird that the TPC has created their own development corporation as well that is chartered with the state. Why would a 501c3 non profit tasked...
by casperitl
08 Sep 2020 08:13
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

^ That has nothing to do though with building an actual park. The TPC was supposed to build a park between the levees. That's not happening. I find it super weird that the TPC has created their own development corporation as well that is chartered with the state. Why would a 501c3 non profit tasked ...
by casperitl
01 Sep 2020 12:07
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

If you are interested in really exploring the subject you should look at the business deals between Trinity LGC board members and Trinity Park Conservancy Board members. At this point, maybe the whole 10,000 acres should be turned over to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. This 200% I would s...
by casperitl
01 Sep 2020 12:04
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

There isn't anyone living there now? It's all light industrial or the jail. Only thing not for sale (that I know of) in this area is the jail and oak cliff glass. Most of the area that's not residential along Beckley or between 30 and Singleton is for sale already as well. I don't know about all th...
by casperitl
31 Aug 2020 18:46
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Man this park needs to happen. Both sides are of the park would explode with development once this is started. Where would all the residents go who live there now? I think these park developers should come clean and admit this park scheme is just a way to enrich themselves, their close friends and ...
by casperitl
31 Aug 2020 14:32
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

This is awesome in so many ways. Both symbolically, and as a way to provide a gateway to the (eventual) Trinity River park or nature area. The naysayers here need to take a giant chill pill. Not only will this provide a cool, unique park feature (That will probably end up famous and a must see tour...
by casperitl
12 May 2020 12:39
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Interesting story from Jim Schutze on the non-profit contracted by the Local Government Corporation to build a park like amenity in the floodplain. https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/more-trinity-river-idiocy-11910221 Seems their ideas are vastly different than that of building a park. Economic dev...
by casperitl
22 Mar 2020 12:32
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

So....they only raised half the money they committed to raising and also did not meet their contract deadline with the City of Dallas. How is this a good thing. In addition their director resigned. No news of building out the actual park just the overlooks that will tie into private land development...
by casperitl
18 Mar 2020 08:59
Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
Topic: Dead Man's Curve
Replies: 15
Views: 21864

Re: Dead Man's Curve

A ton of bad traffic has been dumped off onto side streets starting around Pine Street down to Hatcher and then into Rochester Park/Bonton. It was really bad a couple weeks ago as the traffic apps had not yet updated.
by casperitl
09 Feb 2020 10:07
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity Forest Golf Course
Replies: 91
Views: 91776

Re: Trinity Forest Golf Course

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2020/02/07/pga-tours-byron-nelson-is-leaving-dallas-whats-next-for-the-trinity-forest-golf-club/ "The nonprofit’s $10,000-a-year lease with the city binds the Byron Nelson to be held at the Trinity Forest Golf Club for five years. It also stipulates that if PGA T...
by casperitl
29 Jan 2020 10:16
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Native wildflowers occur for miles up and down the floodway between the levees. If given a correct mowing cycle they can flourish. The photos someone posted above are of native wildflowers, seeded on their own naturally. The only exception are the bluebonnets in one photo that were seeded by humans ...
by casperitl
28 Jan 2020 08:34
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

I have yet to see an area along the Trinity where "seedbombing" has produced any results. The effort of 100 volunteers at one of these events produces less than zero results the next spring. Better to use a tractor with a disc or seed drill to cover a larger area. That was successful in an...
by casperitl
22 Jan 2020 10:40
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Hopefully this is not a stall tactic. Citizens were promised an accelerated groundbreaking and construction of a park.
by casperitl
13 Jan 2020 16:37
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity Forest Golf Course
Replies: 91
Views: 91776

Re: Trinity Forest Golf Course

Quite a few champions of this bad idea need to be called out. A serious question for you capseritl, because you would know off the top of your head: How many of those champions and direct reports of those champions are still making decisions about this golf course, adjacent horse park, and overall ...
by casperitl
12 Jan 2020 10:17
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity Forest Golf Course
Replies: 91
Views: 91776

Re: Trinity Forest Golf Course

Quite a few champions of this bad idea need to be called out.
by casperitl
06 Jan 2020 10:14
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Trinity River Park
Replies: 468
Views: 448430

Re: Trinity River Park

Any updates? :? Private fundraising did not meet their goal. As a result the deadline was extended. The question becomes one of if the Trinity LGC is now in violation of it's own contracts and rules set forth with the City of Dallas in regards to raising the money. One of the LGC members brought th...
by casperitl
06 Jan 2020 10:09
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Reverchon Park
Replies: 47
Views: 44355

Re: Reverchon Park

Would like to have seen a traffic study done before it was brought forth to the City Council. The interim Park Director John Jenkins did not provide one. Does Dallas ever have anyone in "Parks" who's not interim? Must be a terrible "going nowhere" position. The good ones always ...
by casperitl
18 Dec 2019 08:46
Forum: The Bus + Roads/Highways/Bridges
Topic: I-345
Replies: 431
Views: 308597

Re: I-345

If they are not careful the I-345 teardown advocates will fall into the trap of pushing for the resurrection of the Trinity River Tollroad. There are a lot of snakes laying out there in the grass for the tollroad to come back.
by casperitl
18 Dec 2019 08:19
Forum: Urban Photography + Videography
Topic: Updated Google Maps/Earth 3D Imagery [06/2022]
Replies: 23
Views: 23565

Re: Updated Google Maps/Earth 3D Imagery [06/2022]

Yes, it was an amazing sight to get that bonus coverage. The quality is not all that great though. Have to stay a couple thousand feet up to keep the resolution from getting too blurry.
by casperitl
16 Dec 2019 11:14
Forum: The Parks, Trails, + Miscellaneous Infrastructure
Topic: Reverchon Park
Replies: 47
Views: 44355

Re: Reverchon Park

Would like to have seen a traffic study done before it was brought forth to the City Council. The interim Park Director John Jenkins did not provide one. I rarely see the merits of public meetings for plans like this. The developers and city staff never take the public opinion into their decision pr...