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Boy, the term "in part" really threw you off, didn't it?

Not at all, I just happen to think that traffic congestion on I-35 or any other road is a very minor part of this (even though it's pushed as the major reason). They talk about removing traffic that is going back and forth between Canada and Mexico from I-35 (at least in Texas), but that doesn't address the fact that they could remove 20% of the I-35 traffic, and yet because of the growth along I-35 (it won't be too long before San Antonio to Austin To Waco will be solid development), that 20% savings will be gone very quickly.

When you look at the politicians who are pushing the concept of international (although it might not be international within a few decades at the rate we are going) corridors, these are pretty much the same people who are big backers of the TTC, and the TTC is always a component of the international corridors when they are discussed.

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the flow of goods back and forth between nations, however I think that we are being given a bill of sale for something that we weren't intending to buy - we are being sold something that is a "solution" to traffic on certain roads, when it really appears to be a major leg of something much bigger, and doesn't address area growth along I-35.

That said, the people who should be just as concerned or more, are the people in Oklahoma and Kansas, because once serious construction and progress is made on the TTC, the people in Oklahoma and Kansas will be told "The TTC is dumping all of this traffic right on your doorstep, causing you problems, therefore you all need some huge corridors moving this traffic right on through"