I bought and have worked to hard for the land I own,spent tens of thousands of dollars and live on a piece of property I plan to die on. It is MY property. I could care less about fair-market value. MY LAND IS NOT FOR SALE AT ANY PRICE. Build this thing along existing interstates but do not steal hundreds of thousands of acres and divide and take away land that has been in families for hundreds of years. My county,Grimes, would be split in half and devoured by the land grab by Rick Perry. God has a special way of dealing with thieves, its already happened to one of the top officials at Txdot.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
In this day and age of homeland security and general danger it seems to me the primary purpose of this would be consolidation of targets to ease the work of those of evil intent.
My husband tells me that this ‘project’ is supposed to take 50 years! I think it would be obsolete well in advance of reaching the halfway point. By that time we should all have hovercraft anyway!
“One option is no-build,” said TxDOT Executive Director Steve Simmons. “Another is a different alignment.”
Raise your hands for the “no-build” option...
(Steve raises his hand Waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy Up!!!)
Also Lonnie Hunt in Houston County represents one of the poorest counties in Texas...
Sure, they’d like the intrusion and temporary influx of jobs and cash...Then they could setup one of those notorious East Texas “Boss Hogg’s” speedtraps on the thing...Just as long as they split the revenue with “Uncle Sucky” (A.K.A.: “Uncle Sam”) they are obviously ok with all of this...
As I have said before, I think I-69 in Texas will get built as a standard interstate (free or toll). All the rest of the TTC junk in the plan (rail lines, etc) will go away.
The problem with the TTC has always been it’s “weight”. The Texas government is simply trying to cram too much into one “transportation corridor”. The only things not yet in this thing are a monorail, canal, and a bike path!
If they had started this thing as an Interstate, it would have been built without any problems. Instead, Texas DOT has fed conspiracy theorists, offended the people along the route, and generally shot themselves in the foot.
In the future the TTC will be held up as a shining example of what not to do, along with the Embarcadero Freeway and the “Big Dig”.*
*Yes the Big Dig got built, but it should be listed in a thesaurus as a synonym for waste, fraud, and abuse.
My family is from East Texas. My grandparents lived in Woodville. We have a family cemetary in Chester, Texas, and my mom still has land in that area.
I think I hate the idea of a huge highway going through it.
I know it’s hard to travel around that area, but it is a beautiful area that I would hate to change that much.
Why would there a be a town hall meeting put on by the Texas Department of Transportation officials about the I-69/Trans-Texas Corridor if it’s just a rumor and conspiracy theory?
After all Bush and Canada’s Harper both said it wasn’t true and completely made up by us wacky people on the internets.