Yet some time next month, perhaps as early as Aug. 9, the Dallas City Council will finally vote on lopping off the noggin of the Trinity River toll road or the Trinity Parkway or the Underwater Zombie Tollroad or whatever you want to call that four-but-probably-six-lane, 9-mile slab of cement some folks have been wanting to plant along the river's East Levee since forever. Looks like the new City Council, a majority of whom oppose a high-speed road in the Trinity, is prepared to do what its predecessors refused to do as recently as two years ago.
On Friday, five council members -- Sandy Greyson, Scott Griggs, Philip Kingston, Adam Medrano and newcomer Kevin Felder -- sent Mayor Mike Rawlings and City Manager T.C. Broadnax a memo demanding they put on the next available council agenda a resolution that would once and forever reject the only version of the toll road, the so-called Alternative 3C, to receive the feds' blessings.
The next voting agenda is Aug. 9, but Rawlings — who said he "thought this would be coming, after the election and stuff" — told me Monday it may take a little longer. The city attorney's office is drafting the resolution, which, he said, the five would then have to approve before it goes to a vote.