Leading Off
1. Marty Turco’s playoff beard is doing the trick, as the Stars now look to sweep the Sharks. In related news, Zac’s beard is doing the trick, too. Meanwhile, the Mavs? Josh Howard is an idiot for going out and partying it up after game four. But you know, if they had to lose (and they prolly did), then I’m glad New Orleans did it to them. That city needs all the good news it can get. And they sound pretty stoked.
2. An Irving postal carrier left an injured Chihuahua named Rambo in a box on the mayor’s doorstep. He’s fed up with the city’s lax animal control efforts. Now that’s thinking outside the box. (Thank you, Irving!)
3. Eddie Bernice Johnson Boulevard? Post Industrial Boulevard? Those are two of the 10 names now up for consideration for the renaming of Industrial. Vomit.
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Very disappointed in the proposed new names for Industrial. Might as well just settled on Non-Industrial Street or MyCongressMember Lane. OK, I have to admit that I submitted around 15 somewhat tasteful options (none of which made the list). Come on City…if you want to send a signal that the street is adjacent to a natural landscape how about Trinity Oaks Boulevard or Riverglen Parkway or Greenview Lane? Too generic? Too removed from political realities?
What about Riverside Drive, Lakeside Blvd., the standard names of great waterside streets?
Though the idea of Levee Side Drive came to mind. Drove my Chevy to Levee Side Drive.
I am sure the council up with a name with the same panache as Reunion Arena or American Airlines Center.
Both “Trinity Oaks” and “Riverglen” are names of apartment complexes in Dallas (not that it really matters), and “Greenview” might sound too much like “Greenville.”
The last sentence should read “I am sure the council will come up with a name with the same panache as Reunion Arena or American Airlines Center.” I do proof my comments, and the words were not transposed.
just have a naming rights bid for the street. give Jerry Jones the first refusal. . .his boys will be down here with the bail bond business.
ummh, maybe “jerry’s bail bond blvd.”
Eddie Bernice Johnson Boulevard?
Sounds good- “meet me at the corner of EBJ and Harlan Crow, We’ll head up to the Hunt Bar in the Belo Luxury Condo, Upscale Retail and Casino Complex and laugh at those retro suckers at the Ghost Bar.
Stevie Ray Vaughan Boulevard works for me but I’d just as soon keep it Industrial.
To all who are less than pleased at the choice of possible new names for Industrial:
As I noted in the DMN this morning (http://tinyurl.com/6owuwk), almost no one showed up for the City Hall meeting last night where the votes were cast. I counted fewer than 50 heads, and many of those belonged to city staff, elected officials, or the media. Among the voting citizens, an even smaller number were Industrial property owners. A Jetta full of frat boys could have dropped by and gotten “John Belushi Boulevard” into the Top 10.
Democracy works best when people take part. When they don’t, we all takes our chances. As a friend once noted, discussing the same phenomenon in a more serious vein, “It takes more votes to get elected high school class president than it does to win a seat on the DISD board.”
Bruce: Street names should be made in good taste, not pointless displays of democratic collegiality. And there’s a reason elections take place over the course of an entire day in many precincts scattered throughout the city: we work, have families, can’t trot down to city hall for a street naming.
To Tomaso’s point, I should have been @City Hall last night instead of hoisting a stein at a random Post Happy Hour watering hole watching ‘Dancing With The Cosmic Debris’ and ‘American Abdul’. Take Eddie Bernice Johnson Blvd. to the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge? (Past the Billy Bob Thorton Justice Center?)
Rather than having the public show up in person to vote on the proposed names why not set up a website that allows the public to vote on the names?
Recently Major League Soccer set up just such a website so that the fans in Seattle (and across the country) could vote on the name for the new Seattle team. MLS proposed three lame names, the fans were outraged by the selected names, they forced MLS to add an additional selection called other. The result? Out of some 14,000 online votes, 80% proposed a variation on the eventual name Seattle Sounders.
now that is a turnout. As an expat Dallasite here in Virginia I can tell you I would definitely vote in an online poll for a name,and that name would be Industrial Blvd
Peterk - here, here
who gives a rat’s behind, man, seriously, yous are debating the name change of a road as if it has some serious consequence
dallasites continue to baffle me with their nonsensical discussions of nonsense
the name change means nothing. nada. nyet. yet some folks seem to take some sorta moral high ground about what the name should/shouldn’t be
i don’t get it and don’t for one second think the change makes any difference at all because it doesn’t
I don’t have so much of a problem with the names (all though some of them are quite gay) as I do with using the word “boulevard.” Is the word “boulevard” interchangeable with “freeway”?
Wait jrp - does the name change matter?
JIm - jrp is a moronic, Philly transplant who hates Dallas, even though he lives here. Pay no mind to the groundling that jeers the loudest.