Location of Trans Texas Corridor Revealed
Within one week of filing over 200 Open Records Requests with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDoT), 253 secret pages of the contract to build the Trans Texas Corridor were released revealing maps locating the main roads, all access points, highway intersections, and rail lines. The Attorney General and TxDoT also settled their case and had it dismissed fearing a third party might intervene and depose state employees.
Members of the Texas Legislature, who voted several times for this concept and the governor's office, are all denying that the TTC will ever be built, but evidence proves otherwise. "The maps are too detailed and engineered to be mere concepts," stated Dan Byfield, president of the American Land Foundation. "Investors have sunk billions of dollars into this project to build deep-water ports in Mexico and an inland port in Kansas City. Cintra-Zachry, the construction company that 'won' the contract from TxDoT, paid over $1.2 billion for the privilege of building a road. Then, Zachry Construction Company, in 2006, purchased W.W. Webber, LLC, the construction company that had multiple contracts to build major highways in the state of Texas, for another billion dollars. That is an incredible amount of investment for something that is not going to be built," Byfield continued.
The contract can be viewed online at http://www.keeptexasmoving.com.
U.S. Home Builders Seek New Lumber Sources In Russia
October 11, 2006 - Addressing the International Forestry Forum here, U.S. home builders offered to share American home building technology with their Russian hosts and encouraged them to boost exports of softwood lumber and other wood products to America.
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However, a new softwood lumber accord between the U.S. and Canada that is scheduled to take effect on Nov. 1 will create a complex system of border taxes and quotas that will artificially raise lumber prices during periods of normal or slow demand, and thereby harm housing affordability. The pact is also expected to cause new uncertainties for U.S. builders over the availability and price of Canadian lumber.
“Access to a reliable, steady supply of lumber is the lifeline for any American home builder,” said Wilson, who provided conference participants with an overview of light-frame wood construction techniques in the U.S. housing industry. “We believe that lumber trade barriers impose an unreasonable burden on U.S. home buyers and on the industries that depend on adequate, affordable supplies of lumber to provide the housing and other vital goods and services America needs.”
While Howard noted that the new trade pact is a misfortune for Canada, he said it represents an opportunity for Russia and the rest of Europe to increase lumber exports to the U.S. over the long term.
“Today, the U.S. is overly reliant on Canadian imports to meet its lumber needs,” said Howard. “We are reaching out to you to correct this problem and we are looking to Russia to add equilibrium to our market for this essential commodity for the home building industry."
http://www.libertymatters.org/newsservice/2006/faxback/3074_Lumber.htm
What's with that? Is there a link?
Good post. Typical smoke by the N.A.U. crowd...release public statements that "it will never be built". Meanwhile they beaver away...
Well of course they are. They have learned their lessons well from the Washington crapweasels. First answer a different question, then stonewall and, finally, deny everything. The classic federal/state government of today. A lethargic bureaucracy, composed of self serving liars and charlatans who care not a whit about their obligations to the public.