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.
“The only things not yet in this thing are a monorail, canal, and a bike path!”
Excellent observation. Let’s all get on the horn to El Govornor, Senor Perry, and to the Drive By Media, and El Presidente Jorges Bush and the Spanish and Mexican Bankers, and get these things added, especially the canal, as with it we could import illegals by barge, at the lowest possible cost.