Texas Landowners Protest Superhighway Plan

nbc5i.com ^ | September 30, 2006 | nbc5i.com

[Dudoight]

Well, all I know is that it will be a toll road and tolls are guaranteed to the contractor for 50 years. By that time maybe we will all be muslims and riding camels.

[nanetteclaret]

thanks!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

You're welcome. :-)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, all I know is that it will be a toll road and tolls are guaranteed to the contractor for 50 years. By that time maybe we will all be muslims and riding camels.

Nah, they'll probaly put you to work beheading moderate muslims and blowing up non-halal restaurants...

[dljordan]

" I thought he was joking, at first."

I see you pinged your backup.

[1rudeboy]

Just sharing a laugh. I wonder how "one if by land, two if by sea" looks in Chinese?

[Toddsterpatriot]

Will the Chinese have to pay a toll when they invade?

[You Dirty Rats]

The hugh and series secret plan that has yet to be revealed publicly is that there will be an extension of the NAU corridor south from Mexico City to the Panama Canal, which of course is controlled by Beijing.

This extension will allow Al-Qaida to take a boat to Panama across the Atlantic, the Chinese Army to take a boat from the Pacific, meet at the canal and then advance up the corridor until they reach Kansas City -- picking up another 20,000,000 Mexicans along the way.

At that point the invading hordes will fan out using the Eisenhower Interstate System and complete the final conquest of the American Empire. Gives me the willies just thinking about it.

This invading horde could be stopped if we just built a wall, of course, but the Bushes and the Bilderbergers and the Tri-Lats are deliberately sabotaging all defensive measure because they were bought off by the Saudis, in bed with the Chinese and love Mexican food.

At least I saved on my auto insurance by switching to GEICO.

[BaylorDad]

Who in the hell would support this plan?

Just about everyone who travels I35. The inconvenience of widening an existing freeway is unbelievable. The work on I45 between Houston and Dallas will not be completed in my lifetime.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Will the Chinese have to pay a toll when they invade?

I would certainly hope so, after all we've spent buying their stuff.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Maybe if we charged a high enough toll, they couldn't afford to invade.

[deport]

The work on I45 between Houston and Dallas will not be completed in my lifetime.

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Isn't that the truth. They work on a eight mile or so stretch for three years and then start on another.

[dljordan]

"Will the Chinese have to pay a toll when they invade?"

Yes but they'll negotiate it with Cintra and get an electronic pass for their convoy.

[af_vet_rr]

Just about everyone who travels I35.

This won't do much for I-35 (or the NAFTA highway if you prefer). It may take some international or even interstate trucking off 35, but that will be quickly filled by the increasing population density. Within a decade, you probably won't be able to tell where Austin ends and San Marcos begins, and another 20 years after that, you won't be able to tell where San Antonio ends and Waco begins.

The people Perry appointed to the various commissions handling transportation issues are big proponents of passenger rail, both in cities, and between cities, and they can talk about how much they want passenger rail down the I-35 corridor, but if they don't build now, by the time any meaningful rail is put in, it'll be even more expensive, and will probably be decades late. The TTC is not an alternative in that instance either, since it's not exactly running straight into the major cities in Central Texas. Unless they propose some kind of huge regional bus system and/or light rail running out to the TTC (which seems like a really big waste) it will be useless.

I will admit, that the problems we will be facing aren't entirely their fault - anytime anybody talks about high-speed, dedicated passenger rail (built so that it doesn't have to deal with cross-traffic - i.e. overpasses and underpasses at road intersectoins), the airlines freak out and start throwing money at legislators.

This is also why I don't see useful passenger rail being tied into the TTC, even though it was a part of the plan at one point - putting aside that the only people it would be useful for would be people coming/going to Mexico from North Texas (since it's not very easily accessed by the cities like Austin/San Antonio unless they run light rail or buses out to it), the airlines would make sure that it doesn't do anything to interfer with them.

[chatham]

Do you really think the road is only going to be built in Texas ? It supposedly goes all the way to the canadian border from the Mexican Border!!

Who is going to pay for the Confiscation of approximately 530,000 acres needed to build this monstrosity.

Again, the money has been included in the hugh Highway signed by Bush in the past years.

I have written e-mails to my congressman and I have called his office and NO ONE knows anything about it.

I would not cede one square inch of the U.S.A. to any foreign Power since they are not worth it.

If all this crap is true then Bush is dissolving the Soverignty of this Wonderful Country that millions have fought for and Hundreds of Thousands have given their life for.

[thinkthenpost]

Eminent domain will be used as a last resort by TxDot and only for land that the landowner will not agree to sell. The appraisals used by TxDot are genrally pretty fair, or even on the Northside of fair, try dealing with a town, city, county, or school district, especially school district, and it's amazing how that appraisal is fine for you to pay taxes on, but outrageously high when they want the land. Musings from El Paso.

[Toddsterpatriot]

I would not cede one square inch of the U.S.A. to any foreign Power since they are not worth it.

Hate to intrude, but no land will be ceded to any foreign power.

[GoldwaterChick]

But did you sleep at a Holiday Inn last night?

You forgot to mention that Al Quaida and the Chinese are also going to get free EZ passes to make their trip faster and special bazookas so they won't have to stand in those long lines at the travel plazas! That should really get everyone fired up.

[chatham]

How about turning over a Major facility for the Mexican Govt. to operate a Customs facility In Kansas City MI.

[Toddsterpatriot]

We're ceding 530,000 acres for a Customs facility?