[BobL]

Thanks again Tolerance.

Really what I was getting at was whether there was any public participation in the drawing up of the original TTC plan. My recollection was that several years ago, Governor Perry just suddenly dropped the plan in our laps, without soliciting any public input. I could be wrong about that, but I do watch TXDOT pretty closely, and I cannot remember them soliciting comments on the plan - in a town hall type environment. And believe me, if I had known about it, I would have been there.

These meetings, I believe, are more with the specifics of the alignment of the first leg of the corridor, not the corridor concept itself. That, apparently, is a done deal.

[hedgetrimmer]

Its called visioning, facilitation or consensus process. They hold the meeting knowing they are going to build the project whether citizens want it or not. Then those who go to the meeting go away thinking that trying to work with the goverment is just a waste of time.

This, in fact, is exactly how they want you to feel, they don't want your invovlment, and they sure don't want to be transparent and do things constitutionally. Cuz if they did, the people would not allow them to proceed with such a project that takes private property away from individual property owners and gives it over to a foreign corporation. Eminent domain was never ever intended to do this.

[HamiltonFan]

they held meetings last summer all over the state the on-line clips were full of all these hearings by TXDOT, notices and briefs about the few comments from the handful that bothered to show up. Dozens of them.