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To: pbrown

Try this website for your sister. Some people are angry with Perry. This excerpt from the article will explain why they are angry.

http://www.texastollparty.com/ttp_trans_texas.php

excerpt.....

With only 5,000 miles of toll roads in the United States today, The Trans Texas Corridor is a 4,000 mile plan of supertollways more. The Corridor will include tollways for 12 passenger vehicles lanes, 4 truck lanes, 2 passenger train tracks, 2 commuters train tracks, 2 freight train tracks, underground lines for water, natural gas, petroleum, telecommunication, fiberoptics and overhead high-voltage electric transmission lines and electrical transmission towers.

Plans also include gas stations, garages, restaurants, hotels, stores, billboards, warehouses, freight interchange, intermodal transfer areas, passenger train stations, bus stations, parking facilities, dispatch control centers, maintenance facilities, pipeline pumping stations, and of course, toll booths. The Trans Texas Corridor is the largest engineering project ever proposed for Texas. This statewide network of corridors will measure a quarter mile wide and cost over $180 Billion dollars.

Secret deal with a private foreign company.
Gov. Rick Perry has had secret negations with a company from Spain, Cintra, to hold a 70 year concession for a portion of the Corridor. Perry and Cintra/Zachery withheld the agreement from the public, claiming it included proprietary information, even though taxpayer dollars to the tune of $3.5 million is going to Cintra's partner, Zachry, for planning.

Attorney General Greg Abbott rendered an opinion in June, 2005 that states the documents are public record, after the Houston Chronicle and other newspapers around Texas were refused when they asked to see the deal.

Cintra/Zachry and TxDOT filed a lawsuit against the AG in July, 2005 to keep the secret a secret.

The state will take 1/2 million acres, including the richest farm land in Texas called "The Blacklands".

excerpt....

The typical corridor section will require 146 acres of right of way per mile. The total anticipated right of way for the 4,000 miles of corridor is 584,000 acres.






82 posted on 06/12/2006 9:02:14 AM PDT by texastoo ("trash the treaties")
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To: texastoo

Thank you for the link. I'll send it to her. She'll be fit to be tied.


84 posted on 06/12/2006 9:09:08 AM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: texastoo

Well, I sent it to her. Thanks again. Now I'll just wait for the fireworks to start.


87 posted on 06/12/2006 9:26:05 AM PDT by processing please hold (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: texastoo

This literally makes me sick to my stomach. Globalists within our country are destroying our country from within right before our very eyes, and no one questions any of it. Pathetic!


89 posted on 06/12/2006 9:38:00 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: texastoo; Dr. Zoo
If the TTC tries to take out the Wallace Theatre in Muleshoe, Texas I'm going to fight it tooth and nail.

The Trans Texas Corridor would proactively tackle a number of state problems, the governor contended. Among those problems: NAFTA-fueled increases in truck traffic...

4,000 miles in texas? Wow.

Dr. Zoo, isn't that theatre now The Institute of Phenomonology's Texas branch laboratory?

90 posted on 06/12/2006 9:41:00 AM PDT by Syncro
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