Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
Please let me know if you want on or off the list.
if i were the city of waco, i'd be annexing like crazy!
"If you build it, they will come."
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February 22, 2005Nominations for Trans-Texas Corridor advisory committee Texas Department of Transportation
Want to have a role in shaping the future of transportation in Texas?
The Texas Department of Transportation is now accepting applications from Texans interested in being on a citizen’s advisory committee for the Trans-Texas Corridor. When appointed, the committee will begin advising the department on issues dealing with the planning and development of the corridor, a multi-modal network of toll roads, commuter and freight rail and utilities to be developed over the next 50 years.
“We look forward to working with a diverse cross section of people in getting input as we move ahead with the development of the corridor,” said Mike Behrens, TxDOT executive director. “If you think you have something to offer, we will be happy to hear that you’d be interested in serving on this important committee.”
The Texas Transportation Commission, which voted at its January meeting to create a corridor advisory group, is expected to name the committee members and adopt the advisory group’s operating rules at its March 31 meeting.
Applications are available on TxDOT’s Web site, www.dot.state.tx.us or on the corridor Web site, www.keeptexasmoving.org. When completed, the application may be sent by email to corridor@dot.state.tx.us or by mail to Phillip E. Russell, P.E., Director, Texas Turnpike Authority Division, Texas Department of Transportation, 125 E. 11st St., Austin, TX, 78701. Applications are due by March 14.
“The commission and TxDOT staff is eager to begin getting feedback from the committee,” Behrens said. “Anyone who’d like to apply for appointment should do so by the deadline.”
- 30 - For more information, call Gabriela Garcia, TxDOT Public Information Office, (512) 475-2134.
Currently Texas is aflame with "imposed" highways and toll roads.
This is the government trying to make itself useful and "hard wired" in an age where it isn't.
Instead of building these roads we should be letting half of all government people "go", to work on the productive side of society and start contributing for a change rather than glomming on.
Which is total bullcrap, and whoever told the idiot reporter (who apparently didn't bother to fact check with some simple math, she'll go far in journalism) was intentionally lying.
Do the math. As previously proposed, the max width would be 1200', there are 5280' in a mile, so it would take a little over 4 miles of road to take up 1 square mile. Meaning that it would take more than 4,000 miles of road to consume 1,000 square miles of land, so the Waco area isn't going to lose anywhere near that amount of farmland. That figure might have been for the entire statewide project(planned to take more than 50 years to complete), but it is reported in a way that makes you think that the Waco area is going to lose 1,000 square miles of farm land.
The reality is far different. TXDOT has scaled back the width needed to a max of 800-1000', meaning it would take 5 to 6.5 miles of road to consume a single square mile. Define the Waco area as 30 miles on each side (Temple to Hillsboro), the amount of land taken in the area would be approx. 10-12 square miles.