Though it was reported last week that the federal government’s approval of the Trinity toll road project requires that it is built as a six-lane highway or not at all (without significant delays), the Trinity Commons Foundation is continuing to promote the idea that the design could still be reduced in scale.
Trinity Commons executive director Craig Holcomb repeated as much to the Morning News this afternoon:
“The environmental impact statement, because it is so expensive and takes so long — like, $30 million and 10 years — you ask for permission to do everything you want to do, but when it comes time you may say, ‘Well, I don’t have $1.5 billion, but I think I can pull together $700 million, and this is the part we’d like to do … It’s going to be a whole lot of work, but it will be worth it.”
City Councilman Philip Kingston, a toll road opponent, doesn’t like what he’s hearing from Holcomb:
“…that’s what he keeps saying. And it raises the specter that this is just an intentional deception.”
