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."
It'll be a new North American superstate.
And I shall be emperor.
This isn't about negating the unions are bypassing ports. It's about making the US, Canada and Mexico part of a big EU-style organization that eliminates the US' borders.
The timing of this and the *illegal immigration* issue is very interesting. Whoever's trying to sell this lacks PR and marketing skills. It's more like 'in your face'.
I use 35 up here in MN everyday.
I'd appreciate a few more lanes.
Lets roll!!!!!!!!
Wow. I see it took you 60 posts to show up. Your tagline suits you well.
Don't be so sure. The Longshoremen's Union (on the West Coast, at least) isn't too happy that the powers-that-be forced them to start using bar code scanners. It's pretty darn embarassing that this Mexican port (if it is ever built) will actually be modern compared to ours.
50 years ago, mag-lev train technology was being perfected. The railroads thumbed their noses at it and are now on year to year life support. And yet this may be an opportunity to make a major trans corridor NOT on the land as just another freeway, but using all that concrete to make raised mag-lev tracks running north-south; easier to security-check at stations. These mag-lev trains run at 300+mph and are more energy efficient than ground vehicles(mag-lev EM drag REDUCES w/increasing velocity). Add optic cables, pipelines...and you'd have the beginnings of a world wide trans-comm system on conc beams/columns in the air(clear ground below). Your mind is only limited by your visions.
No it's not a joke. Do a Google search on "NAFTA SuperHighway" and you'll get tons of results. Apparently feasilibity studies are already underway in Indiana for conversion of current highways.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=145586
Is it time to throw the tea overboard again?
Sounds like a plan if they only put exits in Canada.
And, if we keep harrassing Israel to give up Covenant lands . . . we'll likely be divided by a new Mississippi gulf to near the Great Lakes by a New Madrid fault great quake.
These days, it's more like tequila.
It's too late.Go to www.spp.gov
Improve the safety and efficiency of North America's transportation system by expanding market access, facilitating multimodal corridors, reducing congestion, and alleviating bottlenecks at the border that inhibit growth and threaten our quality of life (e.g., expand air services agreements, increase airspace capacity, initiate an Aviation Safety Agreement process, pursue smart border information technology initiatives, ensure compatibility of regulations and standards in areas such as statistics, motor carrier and rail safety, and working with responsible jurisdictions, develop mechanisms for enhanced road infrastructure planning, including an inventory of border transportation infrastructure in major corridors and public-private financing instruments for border projects).
Dude, do you realize where your link goes?
Probably too true.
Thanks for the ping!
but 90 percent of Americans don't know about and probably don't really care.
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Which is a main reason the demonic globalists get away with advancing their world tyrannical government goals so easily and rapidly.
Yup.
But won't be our total end.
We will endure . . . but likely somewhat like East Germany endured from Hitler to now.
Thankfully, Christ IS coming back to set things to right . . . after a rather thorough, bloody and wrenching cleansing of evil from the earth.
A researcher was asserting on C2CAM the other night that the British Crown controlled assets worth $80 Trillion--that's with a T, folks. And that the Rothschild Bankers family controlled/had assets worth $300 TRILLION. All devoted to bringing about 1 world government. I forget the total figure estimated for the globalists totally but I think it was around $800,000,000,000,000--or $800 TRILLION if I counted my 0's right.
And money talks now more than ever . . . and kills . . . and changes nation states . . . and . . .
Eisenhower was a major proponent of the Interstate system, and while warning against the Military-Industrial complex, he was also a part of that same complex. The Interstate Highway System was his gift to that same Military-Industrial Complex.
Democrats and Rinos united to strengthen China and weaken us.
Sounds as though it will be easier for the Mexicanos to travel to ALLLL parts of the US on their way North. Stay outta MY backyard, fellas. Sounds also as if this is ONE way to unite the continent into a big North American Union?
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