Posted on 06/21/2007 1:59:42 AM PDT by Man50D
A NAFTA superhighway plan under way in Texas will be extended to Oklahoma and Colorado, stretching the four-lane, train-truck-car-pipeline corridor from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, to Denver, reports WND columnist Jerome Corsi, whose new investigative book, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada," has just been released.
As WND has reported, the Federal Highway Administration is promoting public-private partnership projects to expand superhighway projects, consistent with extending the Trans-Texas Corridor network north.
The plan is for the states of Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado to apply the TTC toll road concept first developed by the Texas DOT to largely rural areas along the Ports-to-Plains Corridor.
To advance this plan, the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor Coalition sponsored by the consulates of Mexico and Canada along with the Texas and Colorado transportation departments is co-sponsoring a "Great Plains 2007" international conference Sept. 19-21 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Denver.
The brochure recommends the conference be attended by real estate developers, transportation planners, highway services business executives, as well as state, local, county and municipal public officials and international trade professionals.
An April Texas DOT study on the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor Coalition website documents the tie between the two groups.
The study says the Ports-to-Plains Corridor offers an opportunity to apply the Trans-Texas Corridor technology to NAFTA superhighway development in rural settings. It concludes by recommending new highway construction be undertaken parallel to the existing Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor route in order to apply the superhighway design north through Oklahoma into Colorado.
As WND previously reported, the $180 billion needed to build the 4,000 mile Trans-Texas Corridor network over the next 50 years will be financed by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a foreign investment consortium based in Spain. Cintra will own the leasing and operating rights on TTC highways for 50 years after construction is complete.
A press release on the Texas DOT website confirms the agency is looking for a public-private-partnership to help finance the construction of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor.
WND also has reported Texas Gov. Rick Perry has received substantial campaign contributions from Cintra and Zachry Construction Company, the San Antonio-based construction firm selected by the Texas DOT to build the TTC.
The homepage of the Ports-to-Plains Corridor Coalition website proclaims, "Together, the communities along the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor are becoming the Gateway to trade throughout the nation and with Mexico and Canada."
The homepage also links the Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor to the millions of containers from China that are planned to enter North America through Mexican ports, commenting, "The Trade Corridor will allow for the development of less congested ports of entry along the Texas/Mexican border."
Regional mobility authorites (RMAs) are not directly accountable to the people of Texas. No voter approval is required for their creation; no voter approval is required for the selection of their board members or staff; no voter approval is required for the selection and funding of their toll projects; nor is voter approval required for conversion, as it is called in transportation planners language.
Source: Texastollparty.com
Say, not that it makes any difference...I mean, I know it’s beside the point...but...does President Bush have any personal investment in this project? I mean...I was just wondering.
LOL! By *personal* do you mean monetarily or ideologically?
“Well I meant monetarily”
Wouldn’t that be a *conflict of interest*?
The highway also provides a psychological barrier that divides America into two parts. Very clever.
People on the east and west coasts will develop a more separate attitude toward each other.
Look for more regionalism rather than nationalism.
We’ve lost the country if this happens.
HMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
Where are all the Naysayers who said this couldn’t happen???????????????????????
Hellllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?????
My gosh the 1930s-throwback Buchananites come out of the woodwork for this stuff. My reaction: [yawn].
I’m sorry that this story, or the reactions to it, does not excite you. It is important nonetheless.
There is nothing to see here except what the extreme paranoid tin foil hat crowd sees hiding in the bushes.
There is no difference in this road than in any other Interstate or US highway project. Unless you think that Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the pay of the Mexicans when Interstates 5, 15, 25, and 35, were all built. They all give Mexico access to the interior of the US. So do numerous US Highways built in the 1920’s, but then I suppose that Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover were on the Mexican payroll too were'nt they?
Just because Jerome Corsi can’t be bothered to learn the most basic facts about the US National Highway system does not mean my fellow Freepers can’t.
Corsi is a terrible reporter and is feeding you a bunch of bull...
http://www.aaroads.com/high-priority/corr38.html
A link to a neutral road geek page about this highway.
“The highway also provides a psychological barrier that divides America into two parts. Very clever.”
No, it doesn’t. It’s called a road, what people will do is drive on it if they want to drive from Denver to the Texas Gulf coast for spring break.
They may, horror of horrors, stop at a Stuckey’s for a Pecan Log. That of course is part of a Mexican plot...
Yes, Before Kelo nobody ever had their house taken to build a road... /sarc
Weeeellllll... Yessss.
Yes it is. I believe they also manage some of our airports and shipping ports. To my knowledge Indianapolis airport is managed by Cintra.
It is amazing to me that there is no uproar about this company.
Is it lock and load time?
An evil road that stops at the Texas border is bad enough, one that goes into other states is a sign of End Times for sure.
You're right! Next thing you know they'll be taking land to build schools and police stations.
Who said what couldn't happen???????????????????????
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