I was just posting the blow-by-blow on the TTC. Actual Texans on the ground mostly thought it sucked. The only piece built was SH-130 to bypass Austin, and the southern portion was a PPP that went bankrupt.
Yep...and it was GREAT to see it go broke. Cintra (a major private contractor based in Spain) knew what was necessary to make money - which was to eventually convert ALL FREEWAYS into Toll Roads, but, eventually and thankfully, it got stopped.
I still remember how easily the TTC* passed the State Legislature (both chambers) at the very beginning, it was almost as easy as Impeaching Ken Paxton, but thankfully the State Senate was reformed by the time that Paxton came around.
*for those who don’t know, the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) was a plan to build a network of private toll roads though Texas and to either convert existing freeways to toll roads, or strangle them by not letting them be widened and not letting other existing highways even be repaved (without paying off the private operators), or a combination of all. It passed easily into law in Texas around 20 years ago - and ONLY THEN did people realize what it was...and then it was killed.