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."
Ahhhhh . . . you shall be emporer only
over
her unroyal lowness--her hideous heinous--Bw*tch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de Marx de Machiavelli de Pol Pot de Stalin de Mao de Castro de Arafart . . . de Sade's
dead body . . .
However, given the dead bodies in her wake vs the dead bodies in your wake . . . one can predict which side the odd's makers are likely to take.
The faster the superhighway plan can be killed the better.
And the foreign companies privatising the US interstate system in places like Indiana need to be forced to divest or they prevented from buying US properties
Because it's colder there? It's HOT in AZ...
Supposedly there are maglev tube trains already running for the elite deep underground . . . at least between many US centers of power but some claim even globally.
There is no Globalist conspiracy here. This is about trade and cooperation. Its beyond me that people are not scared to death about things that really should matter. I have hope that the Bush war on Terror will moderate Islam. However looking at the demographics of Europe and frightning decline in birthrates in other places as well like Japan should give us pause. We must develop viable trade relationships with countries in this Hemisphere as well as South America. This also includes security relationships. There will not be Mexican or Canadian control of the United States. In fact in such a scenario it would appear that Mexico and Canada would be at far greater danger of losing sovernity. Not us.
How 100% certain are you of no globalist involvement? How many 1,000's of pages have you read since say 1965 . . . as I have . . . on such topics?
Well in 'internal improvement' world where else do you think it's going to come from? I'll give you a hint, the tooth fairy won't be supplying the funding. If this highway was privately funded within the US by corporations, businessmen, etc. I would have no problem with it at all. However, I doubt that will be the case. Forget the ridiculous America Firsters claim about national sovereignty disappearing. This could have been a good example of expanding trade without government intervention.
More ridiculous grandstanding from yet another Republican President to build roads private industry could have built cheaper, more efficiently, longer lasting, and faster. At least he's not making the outrageous claim it will help the military or some such nonsense as Eisenhower did with the interstate highway system or transcontinental railroads at five times the going price in twice the time as another Republican once did...
And yet another legacy to be 'thankful' for....
Double taxation of existing roadways and tolls. IOW, we're getting a raw deal.
BTW, even back in 1965, a LOT of info was available from the globalist puppet masters OWN ORGANIZATIONAL DOCUMENTS under their own mastheads, copyrights etc . . . but buried in the midst of tons of pages of very boring stuff.
Nowadays, you can read the evidence all over the place, except in the MSM.
IOW, we're getting a raw deal.
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We're getting a raw deal consumed by cess pool slugs and then when they're through with it . . . it's delivered dried and sprinkled over our salads as a rare treat.
And the sheeple bleat on (to the tune of "The Band Played On."
Here's an idea
10 lanes, right?
we can close it every July 4th and have a "border to border" NASCAR race....
What was that again Mr. Robertson?!? If we don't continue to intervene 'properly', God's going to give us an earthquake? How thoughtful of Him
Perhaps we should have listened to General Washington and not have gotten involved at all? Well no, I suppose if we had listened to General Washington and not gotten involved in foreign affairs that were none of our business, God may have given us an earthquake, hurricane, and volcano all in the same day....
I am quite sure God Almighty will protect the lands given to the Israelites per His promise. Without anyone's help. It may not always seem like a 'win' at the moment, but God's ways are not our ways. Wouldn't you agree
Most people comprehend that the US pacific ports don't have the capacity to handle the future freight, even if the union would allow automation in those ports.
So the choice is really bringing it in thru Mexico and Canada, or thru the Panama Canal. Or wait for global warming to open the NW Passage.
>>I seriously doubt that this highway will sever interstates. They'll just use underpasses or overpasses.<<
And think about that for a second.
Pedro rings up Miguel and tells him he'll be at the 80 under/overpass in 20 minutes. Considering there will have to be THOUSANDS of these xpasses, it makes the border absolutely unenforcable by any means.
Why not have the so-called "smart port" in Texas in the first place?
OK. Now that you've posted the big bad colorful map, answer this: If most commerce is going into the US through one point in Laredo, Texas, isn't it easier to monitor that point than the current system?
Yeah, it's a moniker given to me by TonyfromOhio.
But it's hard to chase you guys down, you know. You're more secretive than THE CONSPIRACY!
Pretty sad to destroy the whole country just to dis-empower a couple of unions.
You think Hillary!'s in on the conspiracy? You have another thing coming. She thinks she's in, but we laugh at her behind her back. The real puppet masters don't even have to manipulate her, she's such a little part of this.
You guys have no idea how huge this is.
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