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I'm a Vermonter so I don't really have a dog in this fight but it seems to me that even if Texans never used this highway they would still get a great benefit from it. If all of the truck traffic on your current highways is shifted to I-69 would that not make your travelling easier?

If it kept the Mexican truck drivers of questionable competence off your highways is that not also a good thing?

"I'm a Vermonter so I don't really have a dog in this fight but it seems to me that even if Texans never used this highway they would still get a great benefit from it. If all of the truck traffic on your current highways is shifted to I-69 would that not make your traveling easier?

If it kept the Mexican truck drivers of questionable competence off your highways is that not also a good thing?"

Looking at the map of I-69, it tells me that this is nothing more than Canadian/Mexican companies wanting to move goods back and forth as easily and cheaply as possible, by staying on one transit system and bypassing many towns/cities. I really don't see any benefit for the US in this, but that depends on how many off and on access points there will be.

On a Macro level this looks great if you are the Federal Government. It makes foreign shipping easier to control. On a Micro level this could be very devastating by rerouting the flow of commerce. But that would depend on the amount of commerce that is just passing through like the State of Texas and the other states that are in the path of this "Corridor". To validate spending this much just to reroute out of state commerce, then the amount of traffic better be huge. But then again how does one collect taxes on the trucks and etc. that use this transit system. If they do not stop in any towns/cities. Then no taxes are collected, nor is any money made by local businesses.

Also taking Texas for an example. DFW is essentially a hub or were most of the traffic and commerce from the Coast or South pass through to then cross the Red or Sabine River. This would redirected that traffic away from DFW and Austin/San Antonio areas. It could be very economically devastating for these two large market areas.

A town's/city's economic impact is dependent on its access to main arteries of the flow of goods. You can research the changes starting with the railroad up to the invention of the airplane to see how once prosperous towns declined by the movement of goods changed to a different method.