Why Are Parkies So Hated?

We’ve talked about this before, and I’m sure we’ll talk about it many times in the future, but Rod Dreher on the Dallas Morning News‘ editorial page blog (without realizing he’s doing it) puts his finger on why the Morning News and NBC5 managed to be so incorrect in their reporting of the Mockingbird Lane issue. They just told the story they knew readers wants to believe.

Anyway, I do think there is an obvious solution to a question posed by Dreher: “what HP is supposed to do to stop the congestion.”

It seems obvious to me that Mockingbird Lane should have been widened through the Park Cities a long time ago. Highland Park had its chance to do this when it was planning a redo of the street, and it chose not to. I can understand why, then, people all over Dallas get huffy when they hear about the possibility of “congestion pricing” on a street that HP purposely kept two lanes. I also understand why it would have been difficult to expand the street to four lanes, costing residents along Mockingbird their homes.

But the tolling isn’t going happen, nor does it look like it was ever close to happening. The haters need to pick on the Park Cities for something else. May I suggest it be this?