Todd, your posting history speaks for itself :(
Who owned the site used to build that school? If the property belonged to a private citizen, were they/he/she properly compensated? See post 49. Schools, hospitals, interstate hwys, improvements are worthwhile and benefit the citizens of the particular community, ie taxpayers who pay for such improvements for their use.
Of course this has gotten way off topic by focusing on the implications regarding the Kelo decision.
There was a small victory in Pasadena CA, regarding a fwy extension. The 110 to be exact. It’s worth the hassle to drive through town to hop on the next leg of fwy, rather than lose historical homes and neighborhoods.
Personally, I’d like to see how much damage this super hwy will cause. I want to see a map with actual towns and cities that will be affected. Until then, I’m basically running off at the mouth. I know one thing though, and that is that an American firm should be given top consideration for this project.
And unfortunately, you don't know anything about it. Or you do and are too cowardly to admit you were wrong.
Who owned the site used to build that school? If the property belonged to a private citizen, were they/he/she properly compensated?
Yes. That's what the condemnation process is all about. They buy property from people for public purposes. Like schools, roads, police stations. Kelo gave the property to a private developer. If you don't understand the difference, well, your posting history speaks for itself.
Until then, I’m basically running off at the mouth.
About the road and about me.
When the Center for Transportation Research released their 1996 report recommending the multi-modal corridor, one of the justifications was that it would require much less land. Common sense will tell you one corridor containing all the transportation modes will require less land than each mode having a seperate corridor.
As you may, or may not know, Texas will need these new cross-state corridors becauce the population is predicted to double in the coming decades.
However much land will be condemned to build the TTCs, it is relatively small compared to the amount of land that will need to be condemned to build the surface streets required for this population growth.
Beside the roads needed for growth, Texas will also need water. Care to guess how many square miles of land will have to be condemned to build 20 new reservoirs?
Here is a link to a map of High Priority corridor 38 (Interstate 27):
http://www.portstoplains.com/maps.html