As promised, here is the second installment responding to Mayor Rawlings’ points in favor of building the Trinity River Toll Road. Yesterday, I looked at “why only small cities are removing freeways from their urban core,” which of course isn’t true. For one, San Francisco has a much bigger job base in their downtown. Furthermore, as somebody from the Bay Area responded via twitter, their Metropolitan Statistical Areas are divided into San Jose and Bay Area. Their CSA or Combined Statistical Area is actually bigger than DFW’s CSA within a smaller land area. Small city indeed.
Today, is the point that congestion is killing the city and strangling the life out of the economy. Almost as if like a noose, say like a freeway loop around downtown.