The road that wasn't

The city of Dallas spent $20,000 on a city resident survey to give a new name to Industrial Boulevard.

The 2-to-1 favorite was to rename the boulevard after César Chávez.

César Chávez was a Mexican-American farm worker, community organizer, labor leader, and civil rights activist who was one of the founders of the organization that evolved into The United Farm Workers. Chávez led non-violent strikes and hunger strikes to gain better wages for farm workers. At one point, Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy even gave Chávez his support. His work led to a National holiday in eight states in his memory.

So what is the name of the road?

The City Council voted 12-3 to ignore the survey and rename the street "Riverfront Boulevard". They further voted unanimously against renaming Ross Avenue for César Chávez instead. Ross Avenue was Cesar Chavez Task Force activists' second choice.

You've got to love a government that asks you what you want and then does something completely different anyway. They spent $20,000 to ask residents their opinion only to turn around and do whatever they wanted anyway.

That was $20,000 well spent.