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."
Goodie. The Drug Lords of Nuevo Laredo will have even speedier access to our heartland.
the new underground railroad.....
now above ground and sanctioned & endorsed by el presidente jorge bush!!!
A poster pointed out the correlation between this super highway, and the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision. Makes sense, because a lot of Americans are going to lose their property to foreign interests...
What will this new immigration bill do to stop the flow of illegal immigrants?
Ohhh - I get it. make illegal immigration LEGAL and build them a super highway.
This sucks.
They can build a transportation corridor right through the heart of America, but a border fence is too difficult and too expensive.
Kelo and Sustainable Growth (UN).
Starting to get Interesting ping
Yah, and a single American port can handle 5 million gigantic containers a year, but we can't possibly deport illegal criminals out of the country because it's soooooo difficult logistically.
Dudette, that is a really disturbing thought. Put it back in your brain please, it's making me uncomfortable.
Note, Texas Gov. Perry vetoed an eminent domain protection bill sent to him by the State legislative and senate bodies.
This whole no border/the private highway thing does not pass the smell test at all.
It is beginning to make the Dubai Ports deal look like a garden party.
Glenn Beck and Savage have nailed it, we are being sold out.
Hey, be reasonable, OK? I'm makin' money here!
Besides, what's a few billion yards of concrete among friends? Remember how Presidente Fox came to hear President Bush speak to the Congress on 9/12 and pledge friendship and support?
Oh, wait. That was Tony Blair.
Well, you get the idea. Sort of.
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The thing I keep asking myself is, why do they want a private highway? So CINTRA can be a law unto themself? No labor unions, no Teamsters, no American drivers, that it?
I read on a post here that Russian officials had their own roads in their country.
There are quite a few "things" in motion at this time in history and I haven't fully looked into everything - In fact, sometimes its hard to keep my eye on the ball at all.
Speculation; - those laws are more to do with hemispheric politics than American law (American law is an endangered species by the way).
Think "creeping incrementalism"
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They are focused on our transportation network. Highways, airports, shipping ports.
What I don’t understand is why there are no protests about this group taking control of so much.
I see them as a threat to this country.
The states position is they can build and maintain these roads cheaper than the DOT. This remains to be seen.
Each Regional Mobility Auth. IS all powerful. We live near the new 183-A toll road. Our HOA requested a change in the entrance/exits to our neighborhood. The CTRMA said NO WAY.
Our HOA contacted all of our state Reps and local leaders, only to find out CTRMA is an ungovernable entity.(they were given too much power) I believe some of the bills passed lately brought some of their decisions under a review panel.
"Ungovernable"? Is your state rep saying the legislature has no authority over them?
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