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​Hey, I was out of town last week when the August issue of D hit the streets -- well, given the magazine's target demo, perhaps we should say it hit the winding lanes and parkways -- with an essay titled "Let's Ditch the Trinity River Toll Road." Wow. Pretty remarkable. From the time of the original 1998 bond election forward, Dallas's only city magazine has been locked in grim competition with the city's only daily newspaper to see which one would be the Official Number One Journalistic Procurer for the Trinity River Project including the toll road. In December 2004 D Magazine even devoted an entire "advertorial" special issue of the magazine to pimping for the project. Tim Rogers, editor of the magazine, has devoted a lot of typing over the years to calling me a liar for my own reporting on the project and especially on the toll road. This is self-serving, I know, but I think I must point out that every single thing I have reported about the project and the road over the years has turned out to be true. Most of what D and The Dallas Morning News have reported has turned out to be untrue. Almost all of that is implicitly confessed in the essay in the current issue of D, which provides a list of reasons why the road is a bad idea. I said almost.