Posted on 11/21/2006 3:04:24 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The state legislature convenes for its 80th session in January.
With more than 80,000 people driving on I-35 from Dallas to San Antonio on any given day, state officials said something must be done.
TxDot officials said the Trans Texas Corridor is in the environmental testing stage, which will last another two years.
TxDot spokesman Ken Roberts said, "What this is is a 10 mile wide study area we're looking at from a standpoint where to best locate a 1200 foot corridor for the Trans-Texas 35."
Anything along the path, up to several hundred thousand acres, and as many as one million people could be affected.
At a cost of $8 billion just for the corridor, people want to know who will foot the bill.
Governor Rick Perry’s advisor Kris Heckman said it won't be taxpayers, “Centa-Zachary is paying for that.
They are the private sector developer, that they will either raise their own money or spend their own money to pay for the front cost of that road so it doesn't cost the taxpayers a single cent for the construction of that road."
Property owners and farmers claim they will pay the price by losing their homes and livelihoods. Others say, ultimately, the whole nation will pay.
Farmer Vince Cortese said, "If they bring the corn in from another country the other country's not going to let you have that corn as cheap as you can buy it from us."
There are also questions about the Trans Texas Corridor being a part of a planned super highway from Mexico to Canada, which raises more questions about homeland security.
Homeowner Cynthia Ross said, "This is a super highway that goes from Mexico to Canada, and will, in effect, erase the borders allowing anyone to come across. There will be no illegal aliens."
Heckman said that speculation is untrue and the corridor will only go from Dallas to San Antonio.
However, a TxDot map showed the corridor running from the Texas-Mexico border to the Texas-Oklahoma line; an inconsistency that has yet to be explained. Construction could begin as early as 2010 and be completed by 2015.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
It's taken them FOUR years to build a tollway from 121 to Highway 380 in Frisco and they STILL aren't done yet. There is no way in hell they will finish a 500 mile road in 5 years.
They will with a 'guest worker' program. Aka, Amnesty.
Anything along the path, up to several hundred thousand acres, and as many as one million people could be affected.
Total nonsense, some of it perpetuated by dishonest groups like Corridor Watch, in that it is a vastly inflated number that depends on the definition of 'affected'. The 1 million number comes from a single report that was widely misinterpreted, where persons 'affected' is defined in such a way that almost all of those 'affected' don't live anywhere close to the proposed road. It goes far beyond just those who might have their property taken or impacted, far beyond those who would be within sight or sound of the road. There are 10 million persons currently living in the DFW-San Antonio corridor, does anyone really believe that 1 person in 10 will lose their land or live within sight or sound of the road?
Homeowner Cynthia Ross said, "This is a super highway that goes from Mexico to Canada, and will, in effect, erase the borders allowing anyone to come across. There will be no illegal aliens."
Well, at least she's wise enough to know that she wouldn't get away with claiming that the road will bring in black people to rape her children. So I guess now the default is to play the illegal alien card. Nevermind that the road doesn't cross the border, doesn't change border procedures, and doesn't create a new border crossing. Will the expansion of parallel I-35 to 6 lanes also "erase the border" and bring in illegal aliens?
Heckman said that speculation is untrue and the corridor will only go from Dallas to San Antonio. However, a TxDot map showed the corridor running from the Texas-Mexico border to the Texas-Oklahoma line; an inconsistency that has yet to be explained. Construction could begin as early as 2010 and be completed by 2015.
It has been explained a million times. The first section built will be San Antonio-Dallas because that is where the highest and earliest demand will be. The extensions to Oklahoma and Mexico will be built about a decade later as traffic rises and demand justifies building those portions.
Different projects with different funding schemes. That was one advantage of bringing in private partners for the TTC instead of the quasi-gov't North Texas Tollroad Authority, which is subject to more red tape and limitations.
Who in heck said THAT about TTC? This is the first I've heard of it. And most of American society does not consist of racist knuckle-draggers anymore, as far as I know.
The article is indeed riddled with bad grammar and "spooky music."
If the rest of the story is as bogus sounding as the tale of woe from this farmer, the article should be ignored as worthless.
20 years ago one of the talking points against any kind of mass transit (and some roads) was that it would bring in the wrong kinds of people and all sorts of crimes. In fact crime statistics did often show a rise in crime in areas with transit, some of which was actually the result of unrelated economic decline that would have taken place without transit (or widened/new roads) as neighborhoods decline and turnover arises from residents moving out to the suburbs, but there was some truth to the concerns in many instances. Yet all too often NIMBY's would overplay the argument and toss it out as a fear tactic, grossly exagerating with the same lack of shame as a Jesse Jackson or other race-baiter. Things are a lot better now, but let's be honest, plenty of persons did play the (fear of blacks) race card back then. As is probably now evident, I have zero patience for those throwing out dishonest and hyberbolic scare tactics, hence my mocking of Ms. Ross' statements, which are quite similar to those I've heard over the years.
Everytime I see one of these posts on the continuing loss of US sovereignty and other NWO crap, I always look to see if that clown from Ohio shows up. So far, he's not shown. Hmmm. LOL Maybe that's good.
Well, the impression I got was that this farmer thought if corn growing was lost to the TTC, foreign growers would sell to us at a higher price. But your explanation renders all this stuff moot, anyhow.
Some alternate engery plans [ethanol] refer to the 'Texas corn belt' as the triangle of 10 counties from Brazos on the east to McLennan on the north back to Travis on the south....
"Construction could begin as early as 2010 and be completed by 2015."
Rick Perry's term ends in 2010, so there is time to get an anti-corridor governor in there in 2010. Rick Perry would have lost if Texas had a run-off system like here in Georgia.
Rick Perry would have lost if Texas had a run-off system like here in Georgia.
You are right. Wallace T. is wrong. There are thousands of acres of corn grown in Central Texas, from south of Dallas to just north of Houston. The Panhandle is too dry for corn and so they grow wheat there.
Lol! And I have actually been impressed with the progress of the tollway. That is, compared to the road construction that slowly crept along in and around A1A & Palm Beach Gardens Mall. I wonder if they ever finished that area around PGA.
However comma, this Vacuum section of roadway they want to build between Mexico & Canada is *bad* news.
BTTT
In the original plans, SH 130 was to be part of the TTC from just north of Georgetown to Seguin. There is a rumor the latest plans call for the corridor to run east of SH130 more towards the Taylor area. (that would be miles outside the projected track) In that case, it would be running through some of the richest farmlands in Texas.
We're not getting the whole story!
BTW, There's a hell of a lot of corn grown in that region.
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