Comments on: Leading Off

By: RK

RK — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:44:51 +0000

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.

By: JIm

JIm — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:11:28 +0000

Wait jrp – does the name change matter?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:05:49 +0000

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”?

By: jrp

jrp — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:55:16 +0000

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

By: JIm

JIm — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:36:11 +0000

Peterk – here, here

By: Peterk

Peterk — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:31:59 +0000

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

By: Rawlins in Blunderland

Rawlins in Blunderland — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:23:18 +0000

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?)

By: JIm

JIm — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:20:32 +0000

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.

By: Bruce Tomaso

Bruce Tomaso — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:49:05 +0000

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.”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:24:20 +0000

Stevie Ray Vaughan Boulevard works for me but I’d just as soon keep it Industrial.