Posted on 02/07/2005 5:59:17 AM PST by HamiltonFan
I suppose it is ok for you that the road in front of your home was grabbed from someome.
How much land did they steal to build the Interstate System or the Farm-to-Market system?
There was a vote. All of this was authorized by constitutional amendment
I guess you don't travel on I-35 much. It's the most congested road in the country. If there's anywhere the corridor needs to be built is parallel to I-35. I'll pay the toll to bypass 35, and those who don't want the toll still have 35 as a free alternative.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
Just let me know if you want on or off the list. Thanks.
I disagree. The biggest land grab in Texas history was in 1850 when the legislature agreed to the terms of the Compromise of 1850. Texas gave up its claims to land that is now part of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming in exchange for the federal government paying off the Texas public debt.
Thanks for the ping!
You're welcome. :-)
And, before you regurgitate guschat's idiocy -- NO! we do not want to sell "the old home place" -- we (and our families) have plans for it!
BTW, TSR, thanks for the ping!
You need to review Texas history. Do some research on the machinations of Thomas Jeferson Rusk and his hit-men, the Regulators...
You're welcome. :-)
This is the second time I read that specific factoid about "most congested road in the country". What, already, is this on a "talking points" memo out of Perry's office? Wherever it comes from, it is utter bullcorn! I do travel I-35 often enough. Try Hotlanta, or near anywhere in Southern California. The more I read utter crap like this, the more dubious I get of the agenda out there.
I agree. From san Antonio to the NM border is wide open spaces a good 8 hour drive. The thought of dividing Texas with one big giant concrete scar is a meglomaniacs dream. this is an outrage that people should not allow. If they want to make truckers lives easier. Not to mention the people that get squished in accidents, build a specific truck highway. It would be safer for the general public, plus the added bene of being able to monitor the trucks from Mexico. The turnoffs at major pop centers could have weigh and inspection stations. I would go for that , but not this outrage.
BTTT!!!!!!
What are you talking about? They ARE building a truck-only highway, as the 2 truck lanes (each way) will be separated from the 3 auto lanes. And they aren't building any new roads west from San Antonio to NM until they are needed. The plan you are thinking of is a 50-100 year plan. The only Trans-Texas Corridor in planning stages that will be built soon is Oklahoma-San Antonio, and a little later to Mexico. I-69 from Texarkana to Houston to S. Texas to Mexico, which is already being planned and would have been built anyway as a traditional freeway, is also being studied to be built instead as a Trans-Texas Corridor type facility, in part to speed up construction and significantly reduce its cost in tax dollars.
There are also new local roads that are being studied for toll-financing, but other than an exception or two, none are being planned as a TTC-type facility. Those other rural TTC-type corridors listed on the 50-100 year concept plan (except for perhaps a Houston-Waco area connection) are a long, long way from being implemented or needed, and as much as anything were put there at the insistance of rural legislators. Several of those corridors were already existing before the TTC plan was developed, again at the insistance of rural legislators, who wanted their pork roads (such as the Ports to Plains Corridor.) Some of the same rural legislators who now complain the TTC would "divide rural Texas with one big concrete scar" What a bunch of drama queens.
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