Another Trinity River Vision Nightmare

No we aren't talking about the Fort Worth billion dollar boondoggle, we're talking downstream in Dallas.  However, the story is eerily similar.  Exchange the word, rafting for Wakeboarding. And Trinity Commons Foundation for Trinity River Vision Authority, or Streams and Valleys.
Just one more "disaster waiting to happen."  Read the Dallas Observer for the latest fiasco.  Will someone tell the politicians to please quit jacking with OUR river?  And quit wasting OUR money.
Kudos to Jim Schutze!

The "Standing Wave" is a $4 million-plus kayaking feature that the city recently installed in the Trinity River, and it's a failure. It's ugly. It's dangerous. It's an insult to the river.

Instead it's another sickening example of how the multibillion dollar Trinity River project is being handled—top-down, with no community involvement or consultation, driven entirely by people whose idea of a river experience is rafting down the Colorado with a guide, a chef and a guitarist.

If the kids didn't have life jackets on, they might drown. If they did have life jackets on, they would still get pushed underwater in one of the most toxic rivers in the state.

 All they know is that the Trinity Commons Foundation—the private socialite club promoting the overall Trinity River Project—has been flouncing around strewing rose petals and singing the praises of the Standing Wave, which they say is the first evidence of progress on the overall 20-year-old multibillion dollar Trinity River project.

We have been blessed with a beautiful river. We need to stop trying to tell the river what to do, be quiet, and listen to the river's real voice.