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Two Texas Projects
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) announced in mid-January that it will be launching two new projects over the next three to four months.
An initial request for qualifications from TxDOT is expected in March for the TTC-69, or trans-Texas corridor/I- 69 project. TTC-69 will be part of a 1,600 mile national highway system connecting Canada, the United States and Mexico. The section comprising TTC-69 would extend approximately 650 miles from Texarkana and Shreveport (along the Texas border with Arkansas and Louisiana) to Mexico. TxDOT indicated that it is looking for a long-term strategic partner for this corridor, and the state’s standardized "comprehensive development agreement" for the project is likely to be similar to the agreement signed with Cintra-Zachry in connection with the I-35 corridor — meaning a pre-development agreement that gives rise to a number of additional procurements as the full scope of the corridor is nailed down. Texas expects to have the comprehensive development agreement negotiated and executed by the end of 2007.
The second project TxDOT announced is a procurement for SH161 that is expected to be initiated in May 2006. The SH161 project would be an extension of SH161 west of Dallas from SH183 north of Dallas to I-20 south of Dallas through the cities of Irving and Grand Prairie. The right-of-way for this project has already been acquired and environmental approval has been secured, but is being updated to incorporate tolling. An unsolicited proposal for this project was received in August 2005.
TxDOT has created a public master schedule of all comprehensive development agreement projects and will update each project’s status as it progresses.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
The other white meat.
400 billion dollar booddoggle.
Dumbass author looking to use a flowery phrase.... Dumbass editor shoulda slapped him for trying to fob off such a lame sentence on the rest of us.
Anybody who's been there can tell you "what might lie beyond:" It's more and more "mostly flat" all the way up to the f***ing north pole. The dirt changes color occasionally, but that's about it.
Malone! Gad, I can remember when that was the closest place to drive to and get beer... Nowadays, hallelujah, they sell it in Brookshires and HEB along with the cabbage and eggs!