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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.