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The whole title wouldn't fit within the limits of Free Republic, so I am putting it below this paragraph.
Trans Texas Corridor:
Visionary concept or a
train wreck for agriculture?
It depends on who you ask!
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A map of possible alternatives for TTC-35. 
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Interview (Audio) NPR | February 8, 2005 A Superhighway for Texas?
Here's the website with more info and explanation:
http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/
Here's a list of meetings where you can ask questions(and I encourage everyone who can to attend and ask questions)
http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/pdfs/TTC-35_Public_Meetings.pdf
Here's a link to the map of the TTC-35 corridor alternatives, which are approximately 10 miles wide study areas (the actual selected single corridor will be at most 1/4 mile wide):
http://www.keeptexasmoving.org/pdfs/TTC-35_Alternatives_Map.pdf
1990-2000 Population Growth of Border Metro Areas
Port of Houston teams up with Panama to draw a piece of Asia's massive trade away from West Coast
Neither -it's a Texas size cluster f...!
People don't seem to realize they are talking about wiping out entire cities, and in some cases COUNTIES that are full of historical sites as well as agricultural land under PRIVATE ownership!
The Spainish company that owns this (Citra?) has already screwed over Canada...when will we finally tell our politicians that enough is ENOUGH?
In other words, they do not really work for a living nor do they understand the concept of limited government.
My sympathies with producers of anything, not made in this country, but the multitude of lies echoed back and forth between "business professionals" are bubbles waiting to burst.
The Bush Administration is subsidizing foreign profiteers, and there are trillions of dollars involved, the name of "foreign investment," that providing in the U.S., junk.
The isles at the stores, are full of junk produce.
The oranges are bad.
The avocados are bad.
The lettuce is bad.
The tomatoes are bad.
If you think that it costs less to buy oranges from Chile, than from Florida, you are mistaken.
The costs of doing business, that is hurting production in America, are government-imposed costs --- taxes.
The U.S. government taxes production. The State and local governments, have followed suit.
Here and there, there is some rebellion, but the business assumptions are as phony as whatever the last tech bubble was, that burst.
Kind of like the business assumptions that led to massive spending of the public's money, on the cities' infrastructures, for a hockey league (mostly government-subsidized), that no longer exists except on paper.
"There are issues with Trans Texas Corridor that give rural members heartburn. "
these are legitimate issues to be raised.
i grew up on a farm and witnessed the effect of an interstate highway on our neighborhood. some things that happened:
1. there were arguments between farmers over whose land was purchased and at what price. one farmer held out for an absurd asking price and the state merely rerouted the freeway.
2. the state used "divide and rule" techniques to dismantle groups of farmers from causing problems at public meetings.
3. the state purchased soil for building the overpasses and freeway from farmers. our neighbor sold too much and destroyed the farm. my father sold clay soil underneath the good soil insisting that they remove the topsoil and replace it, which they did with no ill effects.
4. the biggest impact was socially on our neighborhood. friends on the other side of the freeway had to drive long distances to visit. gradually visits became longer and longer until friendships dissolved.
many of the farm women embraced the freeways and formed new relationships and got jobs in the city.
the end result was that people that some people we knew well before the freeway, we no longer knew. they had become strangers.
5. crime reared its head. we never locked our doors or cars and trucks until the freeway came. also, there were always people stranded with broken down vehicles that needed to use a phone. i never was comfortable with people walking onto the farm from the freeway. some wanted gas, some money, etc.
this has lessened with the advent of cell phones.
6. the state up graded our freeway from asphalt to concrete. you can NOT hear yourself think within 2 city blocks of a concrete freeway.
it's not the same place after the freeway's built. that's "progress".
bump de bump.
