[SouthTexas]

I've never been an enviro-whacko, but the thought of a quarter mile of asphalt and concrete running through the countryside so somebody, somewhere else can get their junk cheaper, does not appeal to me.

As I said many years ago, the only benefit Texas will see out of Nafta is one hell of a freeway, at OUR expense.

[Paleo Conservative]

I've never been an enviro-whacko, but the thought of a quarter mile of asphalt and concrete running through the countryside so somebody,

It isn't just highway. It has double tracked railroad, utilities, space for future high speed trains, four lanes of truck traffic, and six lanes of cars plus other rights of ways. I'd rather have a well thought out set of corridors than a hodgepodge of ill-connected expanded freeways. When was the last time you travelled down I-35 between San Antonio and DFW? Why should people from the valley or the Gulf Coast have to travel all the way to Austin in order to get to Dallas?