Posted on 06/16/2006 10:20:30 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A MASSIVE road four football fields wide and running from Mexico to Canada through the heartland of the United States is being proposed amid controversy over security and the damage to the environment.
The "nation's most modern roadway", proposed between Laredo in Texas and Duluth, Minnesota, along Interstate 35, would allow the US to bypass the west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to import goods from China and the Far East into the heart of middle America via Mexico, saving both cost and time.
However, critics argue that the ten-lane road would lay a swathe of concrete on top of an already over-developed transport infrastructure and further open the border with Mexico to illegal immigrants or terrorists.
According to a weekly Conservative magazine published in the US, the US administration is "quietly yet systematically" planning the massive highway, citing as a benefit that it would negate the power of two unions, the Longshoremen and Teamsters.
Another source claimed the highway was a "bi-partisan effort" with support from both Republicans and Democrats that would reduce freight transport times across the nation by days.
Under the plan - believed to be an extension of a strategic transportation plan signed in March last year by the US president, George Bush, Paul Martin, the then prime minister of Canada, and Vincente Fox, the Mexican president - imported goods would pass a border "road bump" in the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, before being loaded on to lorries for a straight run to a major hub, or "SmartPort", in Kansas, Oklahoma.
Border guards and customs officers would check the electronic security tags of lorries and their holds at a £1.6 million facility being built in Kansas City, before sending them on to the road network that links the US cities of Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit with Ottawa, Winnipeg and Vancouver across the Canadian border.
Rail tracks and pipelines for oil and natural gas would run alongside the road.
Following the release of a 4,000-page environmental study, construction of the first leg of the Trans-Texas Corridor is reportedly due to begin next year, backed by US state and governmental agencies and a Spanish private sector company, Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte.
Tiffany Melvin, the executive director of Nasco, a non-profit organisation which has received £1.4 million from the US Department of Transport to study the proposal, said: "We're working on developing the existing system; these highways were developed in the 1950s and we have number of different programmes we're working on to provide alternative fuels and improve safety and security issues.
"We get comments that we are working to bring in terrorists and drug dealers, but this is simply not true.
"This is a bi-partisan effort that will ultimately improve our transportation infrastructure.
"Trade with China is increasing greatly, and the costs of our transportation system are ultimately born by the consumer.
"We do offer links to Canada and Mexico, but we are working on the trade competitiveness of America. We are planning for the future."
Eric Olson, the transportation spokesmen for the California-based Sierra Club, a national environmental awareness organisation, said the road would cause significant damage.
"Something on that scale would have a massive environmental impact," he said.
"Building a large-scale new highway does not seem like the best solution.
"There is a great need for fixing our existing roads and bridges. That needs to be a priority before we start building new massive road projects."
You're welcome.
I'm not sure there's that much money on the entire planet.
We were told the reason for the Interrsate Highway System was indeed for increased mobility of troops.Nobdysfool wrote:
It was built expressly (pardon the pun) for the purpose of being able to move troops and materiel quickly and efficiently in case of military necessityI should like to correct this common misunderstanding of the origins of the "Eisenhower" Interstate Highway System. The military utility of the system was not the primary motive or purpose for it. However, the military rationale served two political needs in enacting the law:
1) It gave constitutional justification for the federal program;Certainly Ike was committed to the military benefits of the road system. However, the military use was more catalyst than core purpose. And remember this: for military transport, the highways were redundant and relatively ineffective: the biggest and most efficient "road" system to move troops across the country was started by Ike's Republican ancestor, Abraham Lincoln and his Transcontinental Railroad.
2) It reflected and used for promotion of the road the national hysteria over the Russian H-Bomb.
People so easily forget that railroads are roads. The railroad system in this country was and still is amazing. It was built with public grants to private enterprise, and it built a nation. See here for a fabulous 1906 New York Times editorial praising Huntington's Southern Pacific line, which he built using public grants and "watered" stock:
"The Road of 1000 Wonders" (**warning: pdf file!)The Interstate Highway system was launched by Congress by a coalition of the AAA (which had been lobbying for this system since 1911), New Dealers and their philosophical allies (who had long tried to build a national road system), and, most importantly, States that had not built their own highways. Those States turned to the federal government to pay for highways that the more advanced states had already built (mostly using privately-floated bonds financed by tolls).
Again, the military component of the system was rationale and a distant secondary impetus to the primary motives and purposes of the System, which were political.
Because they can.
So how did that work out? Apparently not well, because this is the first I had heard about it.You haven't heard much about it precisely because the railroad connections to Mexico were effective.
There's a whole history of railroad building to/from Mexico. The various U.S. lines and regional interests competed in it strenuously. Come the automobile and you have highways joining the battle. Plans for Mexico to Canada routes were first discussed in 1911. The first successful North American transnational highway was the Pan-American highway. Promoters and detractors of it argued along the same lines as we are seeing today over this project.
Btw, railroad projects were in direct competition to sea ports. Furthermore, a huge motive of the Panama Canal was to compete with the railroads. Theodore Roosevelt, a regulatory freak, argued directly that the Canal would effectively diminish the power of the railroads, which he saw as a good thing. The railroads responded by opening lines directly to Panama, straight through Mexico.
We can go back through ancient history for similar stories. There's truly nothing new under the sun.
Yes, integrating with Latin America will help to get rid of the pesky and uppity unions. El Salvador was the most successful in doing it.
Who knows what's true. But there are persistent reports from a diversity of sources.
And some of the best researchers in the field believe at least some of such stories--especially between highly secret sites.
Oh, the ET's provided the slick drilling technology. I forget but I think it is some variation on a plasma drillhead somewhat akin to the big drill machines that drilled under the English Channel but a lot slicker.
It reportedly leaves the walls smooth as glass, if not literally glass.
I wondered, too.
However, I have ran across an assertion--I think just one or two sources so far--that the NWO folks plan to give everyone some massive amount of ready cash in the 10's of thousands after canceling everyone's mortgages etc.
Presumably also after the population reduction plans. And, presumably also after receiving the required SLAG--chip implant.
And don't forget, they are in charge of the illegal drug trade as well as reaping major profits in many sectors of the globally controlled economies.
Could be. On the Art Bell show(George Noory)they have a report of an alien bore hole somewhere up in canada that goes down so far it's like...no bottom. Plus some guy claiming there's a whole trog civilization down there, 26 miles below WA state, with GLACIERS! Ah well, where's the line between fantasy and reality?
True.
Have long expected the truth in our era to increasingly become stranger than fiction.
Would be a cool place to take something like a 1968 Buick Wildcat or even a 1981-1987 Regal/Grand National Turbo and open them and see what they will do. However, in a nutshell, this is part of the New World Order agenda, so I'll pass. I guess I-79 will have to do if I ever get my mitts on those cars. B-)
Hadn't read that one. Will be on the look out for it.
I should have qualified the "for the elite" phrase . . . not that they take such trains for their travel . . . but that the shadow government and black ops folks ship lots of stuff that way--say--move people and materiel that way.
What do I know.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's true. I wouldn't be that surprised if it's total disinformation. Though I have a hard time understanding who would profit if it's total disinformation--beyond selling a few books.
I suspect that when this past century and the building one are finally thrown open so that the thoughts and intents of every heart and mind and the deeds of every hand are totally exposed . . . there shall be a long list of shocking revelations.
"Make an argument we don't like and we'll kill you."
Road Rage PING.
What the United States needs is a massive new highway and infrastructure system so Walmart can import more Chinese crap here, more economically.
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