[Paleo Conservative]

So is this a NAFTA highway or is it to enhance the port of Houston's ability to deliver goods throughout America ?

It's that plus more. The idea is to keep long haul traffic away from urban areas so it doesn't clog up urban freeways. The first corridors will handle lots of NAFTA traffic.

[marty60]

Are my eyes deceiving me are is this planned to run through some of the most expensive realestate around houston. If so it's not going anywhere. do you have a close up view of the Montgomery County,etc areas?

[BobL]

"The first corridors will handle lots of NAFTA traffic."

Maybe. But according to one website that I read (no, it wasn't CorridorWatch.com - like I said, I spend little time there, I prefer to develop my own thoughts), it would be a violation of NAFTA to force only NAFTA trucks to use these super-high priced toll roads. I'm not sure about this, but it may even be a violation of NAFTA to force all long-haul trucks to use these privately-owned highways (since that would also force NAFTA trucks on to the toll roads).

That leaves the option of either allowing NAFTA trucks to continue to plow through the middle of Austin and Dallas/Ft. Worth, or having someone else pay the toll to Cintra. Anyone care to guess who will get stuck with the bill.