Exactly.
And that will be the economic death of many rural counties and towns that now depend on tapping into that "on-off" nature of the present highways for their primary cash flow.
The Trash-Texas Con Job is designed to turn rural Texas into "Drive-over Country" -- with the through-flushed traffic leaving no more economic benefit outside the big cities than do the airliners that now fly over us here in "Flyover Country"!
And for that "privilege", rural Texas is supposed to surrender up to a foreign scam one square mile of taxable land for every four or five miles of this
The TTC is a toll road. I-35 would still be in existence, as would I-45. Those who didn't want to pay tolls, would still take I-35. Hell, I can afford the tolls, but there might be times when I want to get off in West to get some klobase, or stop in New Braunfels for smoked sausage.
The TTC won't be the death of any of these towns. If I want to hit any of them, I'll just take I-35.
Thanks for the ping!