Posted on 10/06/2009 4:39:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Texas Department of Transportation is pulling the last plug on the Trans-Texas Corridor, Gov. Rick Perry's embattled plan to build a toll-road network across the state.
The agency said earlier this year it was scaling down the project and dropping the name "Trans-Texas Corridor." Now, transportation officials say it's fully dead. Transportation Commissioner Bill Meadows told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of the decision in a report posted online Tuesday.
The news comes a day after Perry's Republican primary opponent, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, secured the coveted endorsement of the powerful Texas Farm Bureau — a vocal opponent of the corridor and a group that has been at odds with Perry over eminent domain and private property rights. Farmers and ranchers did not like the corridor plan because of the private land it threatened to take.
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Hopefully the last Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
It’s dead Jim.
W00H00!
I am happy for Texas residents if this is truly kaput.
I guess the loons will have to be happy with the Build-A-Burgers.
Let the bitch die!
Great news! And, just in time to kill it as an election issue.
Up here in DFW you can’t move without using a toll road. The NTTA is everywhere, and many place that you don’t know until the bills roll in...
So much for all those jobs for illegals.
I still think the bullet trains were a great idea. I guess it’s nothing but Southwest cattle calls and endless traffic jams on I-35 for Texas from now on.
What a pity.
All our hard work finally paid off!
What it takes, mostly, is for people to get up off their -- couches -- and let the PTB that "We ain't gonna put up with your (censored to maintain FR decorum) -- and we ain't backin' down!!!!!
Getting it to work is beside the point. Its a massive govt funded project which will have tons of graft. How will they afford their retirement plans if they cant steal our tax money?
Let it stay dead. Add a couple of lanes to I-35 instead
Public transportation works well with high density populations. Other places it just soaks up tax dollars.
The Texas corridor is dead along with the bubble economy that spawned it. Plus who in their right mind wants more direct access to and from Mexico, the bottomless pit of corruption, narcotraficantes and illegal aliens
You guys need to pull the plug on any politician that won’t get rid of those toll roads. And then demand them gone.
You already pay gas taxes for highway upkeep. Tell your leaders that’s what you want the money spent on, rather than mass transit rabbit holes.
If mass transit is a good idea, then taxes on tickets to ride should pay to support the system. If they can’t raise money in this manner, then the mass transit isn’t viable. Do away with it. Better yet, don’t build it in the first place.
When you’re right...you’re right!
We'll see. I'd bet not.
You know what soaks up tax dollars? SUBURBAN HIGHWAYS. Why do you think that so many new roads are toll roads? Because gasoline and other motor taxes can’t cover the cost of all the shiny new highways that the suburbanites demand in their vain attempt to flee from reality.
Well, too bad. From now on those who want to live in suburban la-la land get to pay tolls to drive on those nice, new freeways — and I’m glad. It’s about time people had to pay up front for the infrastructure required to live in Fantasyland.
"Building a North American Community" by the Council on Foreign Relations.
FYI
Oh, boy! More ugly gray pavement packed bumper to bumper with semis! That’s what Texas needs!
Time a wake, to celebrate.
"See, there's a big difference between mostly dead, and all dead. Now, mostly dead: he's slightly alive. All dead: well, with all dead, there's usually only one thing that you can do."
(Princess Bride)
HOOOO—BOY! I Like that! I’m so tired of the tax and spend idiots, the toll road loonies, the “light rail” fanatics (who once they arrive by rail, still don’t have a way around). TXDOT had a SURPLUS once (haven’t checked lately) but they are addicted to our money so it’s a constant battle while they poor-mouth us to death.
Ain’t life grand??
my my bitter aren’t you.
at least suburban highways are utilized. rural roads are used so little they really aren’t cost effective.
The TTC may be "dead", but the people of Texsas will not forget all the money wasted, the arrogance of Perry and TxDOT, and that Perry never backed down -- even when...
"The reason that's being given for the no-build option is that people don't want it," Meadows said."They said 'Hell no.' "
And Perry refused to listen...
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No, the issue is not dead as an election issue; Texans have long memories...
Not bitter. Angry at the waste. What little natural beauty is left in Texas will be paved over so that the legions of Wal-Mart shopping retards can live their bland, meaningless suburban fantasy lives.
We can only hope it is dead for good.
They could be just changing the name, the route, etc...
and coming in the back door while no one is looking, the way they usually work.
“What little natural beauty is left in Texas will be paved over so that the legions of Wal-Mart shopping retards can live their bland, meaningless suburban fantasy lives.”
This plan would have paved over an immense area of texas so that illegals from South America could enter more easily.
I’m very happy about this! I hope it’s dead forever!
Over time, I came to oppose the highway portions of the plan. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to separate the badly-needed rail aspects of TTC from the oceans of pavement that would have been built as well.
While I’m happy that the new freeways won’t be built, I’m unhappy that humiliating and uncomfortable air travel and mind-numbing hours of freeway driving will remain the only ways to travel across our state for the foreseeable future.
Thank you, Texas farmers and ranchers, for defending property rights from this hugely expensive boondoggle that would have benefited the politically connected and the Spanish construction company.
The governor and the good ol’boys of the legislature couldn’t stand up to that great old challenge from Goliad’s patriots, “Come and Take It!”
Public transit only makes sense between the big cities. It makes no sense for the remotely populated regions.
You could also buy a helicopter.
KBH will NEVER win an election against RP. Take it to the bank...
I live in a rural area of south Texas. Roads around here (FMs) are heavily traveled. Don’t know where you get your info.
I also live 20 miles from the proposed TTC. Did my part to kill the monstrosity.
From your lips to God's ears. But tonite the radio said KBH is leading Perry in the polls. Didn't give numbers. She has all the elite behind her. If people think Perry's faults are bad, just wait for Ma Bailout.
When the campaign heats up, RP will hammer KBH with her record, while letting the voters know that TX is one of the most prosperous states in America. I do not believe Texans will elect KBH over RP when it comes down to pushing the button. You are right, she has the elites all sown up, but they don’t elect the Gov.
You sound like you would fit better in DU than FR.
We need to be very careful...
Senator Corona has been very public about his desiring to reasurrect this abomination in 2011...
I’m ust amazed it took so long for the legislative branch and the governor to take a hint from about 95% of Texans about this issue...
Things like this are never kaput because the advocates NEVER give up.
Frankly, I don't remember who I voted for last time (Kinky, maybe?) -- but it definitely was not for Perry; nor will it be next time around.
“KBH will NEVER win an election against RP. Take it to the bank...”
KBH may not win, but if she wasn’t running the TTC would still be here, and Perry would be coasting to re-election due to lack of any credible challengers.
Say what you want (RINO, and the rest), but KBH may have been the only person in the state (other than Perry) with the power to KILL IT.
The TTC is dead. Long live I-69!
I-69 was to be the Interstate portion of the TTC. It was also the only part that made sense and has any purpose outside of Texas. Now that the TTC is gone, the I-69 project can get moving.
Be careful when it comes to allowing tolls.
Two weeks ago, I was in NY for my niece’s Bat Mitzvah... I stayed with my step-mother up in Yonkers, and my sister and her family live in NJ, just outside of Hoboken. In order to get there, we have to go over two bridges: The Henry Hudson and the GW bridge (or take a tunnel). Because she has one of those electronic “passes” we just had to slow down for the tolls, so I had no idea how expensive it was...
Because she uses that electronic gadget, and usually goes out there during “off-peak” times, the round trip cost to visit her daughter is... you won’t believe this... $12 in tolls! That’s right! $3 each way for the HH bridge, as well as a $6 toll into NY from NJ!
Mark
And you sound like you’d fit better on nambla.org.
I don’t care if you disagree with me, but you’d better do so on the basis of ideas. If you don’t have an argument, don’t post to me. Otherwise I’ll have to humiliate you again.
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