Here's a superhighway super enough for Texas

ASSOCIATED PRESS via The Washington Times ^ | Jan 2, 2005 | Jim Vertuno, ASSOCIATED PRESS

[Paleo Conservative]

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The Trans-Texas Corridor project, as first envisioned by Republican Gov. Rick Perry in 2002, would be a 4,000-mile transportation network costing $175 billion over 50 years, financed mostly if not entirely with private money. The builders then would charge motorists tolls.

But these would not be mere highways. Proving anew that everything's big in Texas, they would be megahighways ? corridors up to a quarter-mile across, consisting of as many as six lanes for cars and four for trucks, plus railroad tracks, oil and gas pipelines, water and other utility lines, and broadband transmission cables.

Supporters say the corridors are needed to handle the expected boom in the flow of goods, driven by the North American Free Trade Agreement, to and from Mexico and to enable freight haulers to bypass heavily populated urban centers on straight-shot highways that cut across the countryside.

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[Sarajevo]

Why don't they just build a pipeline from Mexico to the U.S. so illegals can be piped into this country?

That is exactly what they're doing!

[snarks_when_bored]

Bingo!

(That's near Sarajevo, right?)

[Miss Behave]

Actually, Miss Aligned, my cousin, hasn't talked to me since I *falsely accused* her of somethin' bad a couple of years ago, LOL.

My dad and I were splitting a gut one night, howling as we perused the dictionary of all the other funny Mis- words. It was after the election, and I needed a new tagline, so we thought I should add other Mis- word names to go with mine. It was TOO funny. We agreed that Miss Creant (miscreant) was the funniest, in that we laughed the longest at that one. It was about 2 AM and we were punch-drunk silly about the Mis- words. Miss Hap (mishap) also took us a long time to "simmer down from" from giggles. What simpletons we were that night.

I'll try to *behave* if you promise to not *snark* at me when MY posts *bore* you. Deal. OK. ;-)

NOW GET TO BED. :-)

[snarks_when_bored]

Deal!

s_w_b

[BobL]

Thanks for the ping Paleo, but I'm still guided by nature and had to get at least a few hours of sleep.

BTW (everyone) - I don't like toll roads.

[Arrowhead1952]

Here is another article MeekOneGOP pinged me about this same topic.

Texas Begins a Huge Highway Project; Not All Are Happy

[pcgTheDestroyer]

until you're trying to drive from San Antonio to Denton during the week

...to build an elevated highway from San Antonio to Denton.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1314785/posts?page=98#98"

Whoa, now THAT'S freaky.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[MarshallDillon]

http://www.corridorwatch.com

http://www.firericwilliamson.com

http://www.austintollparty.com

A 17 cent/mile toll equals a $3.40/gallon gas tax. I'd rather just have a 10 cent gas tax increase statewide and be done with it.