He go by like
he was standing still on
the ground
and was injured anyway,
and it wasn't a blow to
the Thunder Road, actor Robert Mitchum
sings zombies from the 1950s movie
of the same name about running moonshine.
And that's whisper quiet compared
to Thunder Road in Dallas, a
cul de sac at the southwest corner of
LBJ and the tollway under
the newly elevated Inwood Road.
None of that existed when these 12
duplexes were built since the tollway
extension was completed two years ago.
The people who live here have suffered
extraordinary noise from elevated
traffic. We sometimes wake up in the
middle of the night by trucks driving
along the front road.
City Council members were briefed on a
plan to spend nearly half a million
dollars on a double walled berm
to serve as a buffer between the elevated
road and the homes.
In addition, another three quarters of
a million dollars will be spent to
reimburse the 24 homeowners
for an average check of thirty six
thousand dollars per family.
The money part of it will simply
give us the opportunity to
hopefully recoup some of the loss that
we've already sustained.
Even after all the improvements are made,
the folks who live along Thunder Road
know that their street will never be
known as whispering way.
Perhaps the best they can hope for is
dull roar drive
Bob Leder. Channel 5 News along
Thunder Road in North Dallas.