[Dog Gone]

Good grief, basil. I-35, I-10, I-20, and every other interstate highway divides this state. We have workarounds called "overpasses".

[BobL]

...I think what bothers him is the 10 to 20 miles between TTC crossings that will make life a bit more difficult for people on or near the route.

With a typical freeway, you hang a few I-Beams, lay an overpass, and you're done. In this case, it's more complicated. Also, we don't know how that dreaded non-compete clause will play in. If a new county-built overpass will make it easier to for local drivers to bypass the toll road in some way, the county will have to pay Cintra royalties for the next 50 years, to make up for Cintra's lost revenue.

As was mentioned to me a couple of days ago, "it's only fair, if we want Cintra to invest the billions necessary to build the road". Yes, it's fair to Cintra - but how about Texans?

[basil]

If you see any similarity between what is being proposed and I-35, I-20, and I-10--then that may just be your problem!

[TXnMA]

We have workarounds called "overpasses".

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Dog Gone, you are being disingenuous -- again. (Or is that -- more accurately -- "dishonest"?)

I have gone to extreme lengths -- including creating complex graphics -- to illustrate to you the access problems associated with the multi-mode TTC corridor concept. And yet, you respond to folks' honest concerns with "drive-by" platitudes like this one.

Worse, you open your discussions with ad hominem slurs like labeling those who are honestly discussing the issue, "kook fringe".

BobL and I have treated you with (far more than you deserve, apparently) respect. Perhaps it is time that we abandon all attempts to treat you as an honest, concerned FReeper and abandon all discourse with the Perry/TDXDOT spinmeister you have supplied ample evidence of being.

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"Overpasses", across Interstates, are provided as a public service -- required by the taxpayers of those who designed the interstates -- and funded by the taxpayers. They are a far cry from the quarter-mile-long "crossovers" over the fenced-off TTC.

Cintra-Zachry is already fighting hard to conceal the truth about their plans for the TTC -- but that is nothing like the lawyer-armies they will employ to fight the building of each and every crossover -- because the cost of any "public service" (i.e. crossover) will come directly out of C-Z's anticipated profits.