US divided by superhighway plan

The Scotsman ^ | Fri 16 Jun 2006 | CRAIG HOWIE

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The state will own the right of way and lease it out to the Cintra-Zachry consortium, which will put up the money to build the road and maintain it, while collecting tolls to make up for the expense and get some profit as well, for a term of 50 years. The state will own the road; Cintra-Zachry will merely build and run it.

[poobear]

"Let's do it!"

Nothing like a four football width Interstate going through your private bison pastures ;D!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I forgot to mention that Cintra-Zachry will put up a huge concession fee to the state of Texas just to build and run the road.

[1rudeboy]

Looks just like the invading forces in a military strategy lesson, doesn't it?

LOL . . . I want to attack the U.S., so I will extend my land supply-lines by a 1000 miles by routing them through Mexico. [hoot]

[Centurion2000]

No, this is the North American Combine

[Centurion2000]

3. Mexican trucks will be allowed to run anywhere in the USA. I have seen the quality of these trucks while traveling in the Southwest and saftey will be a big issue. DOT regulations requires that all commercial drivers pass a DOT physical and carry either a US issued Class A or B license. Commercial drivers must also be able to read, write, and speak English.

Just imagine trying to get the insurance information from a Mexican trucker that thinks you caused the accident.

[N3WBI3]

Unless of course you consider having ports that matter in this nation important...

[1rudeboy]

Just imagine trying to get the insurance information from a Mexican trucker that thinks you caused the accident.

What do you think you pay premiums for? Pull the USDOT and license number off the truck and tell your agent to deal with it. It's not that complicated . . . ever been in an accident?

[1rudeboy]

Unless of course you consider having ports that matter in this nation important . . . .

God, I wish the Longshoremen felt the same way. And the envirowhackos.

[N3WBI3]

The right way to do this for Americans is an east, west highway from the west coast to Kansas and construction of new ports..

[1rudeboy]

Hey, I'd like to see new ports built in the U.S. as well. I'd also like to see gumdrops fall like rain from the sky.

[dashing doofus]

Me too. Opening up markets to free trade has contributed to reduced inflation.

[Smokin' Joe]

Here, check and see if the Interstate is coming through your outhouse. US DOT NHS High Priority Corridor webpage.

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[zook]

"This will increase trade and raise our standard of living. No reason for us to oppose this."

I love finding good old fashioned common sense on FR. It's getting harder, though.

[mkjessup]

Instead of shaking your head and laughing, why don't you post something that backs up your claim that a new road will cause drivers not to buy auto insurance.

Lookee here smart arse, all you have to do is pay attention to the news when illegal immigrants are involved in traffic accidents to understand that they seldom have auto insurance coverage. You made the inane comment about 'what does the road have to do with auto insurance' so here is your first clue:

YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRIVE ON *ANY* ROAD >>WITHOUT<< INSURANCE!

Is that clear enough for you?

I never made the claim that a 'new road would cause drivers not to buy auto insurance', it ought to be easily understood by even someone with a room-IQ temperature, that if you build this big-ass highway which will increase the numbers of foreign drivers, many of whom WILL be illegal (because we can't stop the illegals now), there will be a corresponding percentage of uninsured drivers among those foreign and/or illegal drivers. That translates into causing U.S. drivers (who are more likely to BE insured) to suffer economic loss, life and limb, if the daily dice come up snake-eyes and it's their turn to have an accident with an uninsured foreign/illegal driver. Getting the picture here?

If you increase the potential numbers of foreign/illegal drivers via this gigantic Immigration Superhighway, you cause a like increase in the potential for accidents involving uninsured foreign drivers. And we haven't even begun to discuss the mechanical condition of foreign vehicles coming into the U.S. on this proposed highway.

Please post that along with your source that shows that the road will have negative economic effects.

I don't have to post a damn thing Sparky. Common sense alone ought to tell you that spending billions of dollars to build this hyper-slab, co-locating rail, gas, electric and other resources along side of it, making it easier than ever for foreign illegals to travel this highway across America, is NOT going to have a positive economic impact.

Not to mention the attractiveness of such a structure for future terrorist attacks.

Back to you pal.

[Ben Ficklin]

The primary reason for expanding transportation capacity in Texas is the projected population growth. They are coming whether the road gets built or not.

One option to the TTC35 is to widen I35. In your world of faulty logic, would widening I35 create fewer un-insured drivers?

Then there is the matter of the new road, I69, from the border to Texaskana, ultimately reaching Port Huron, MI. Will that road create fewer un-insured drivers?

As for the potential of a terror strike, the multi-modal corridor lessens that risk. If each of the transportation modes have a seperate right of way, there are many more targets to strike and the sum total of security needed will be much higher.

[deport]

Another Reagan speech........

Some may call is mysticism if they will, but I cannot help but feel that there was some divine plan that placed this continent here between the two great oceans to be found by people from any corner of the earth -- people who had an extra ounce of desire for freedom and some extra courage to rise up and lead their families, their relatives, their friends, their nations and come here to eventually make this country.

The truth of the matter is, if we take this crowd and if we could go through and ask the heritage, the background of every family represented here, we would probably come up with the names of every country on earth, every corner of the world, and every race. Here, is the one spot on earth where we have the brotherhood of man. And maybe as we continue with this proudly, this brotherhood of man made up from people representative of every corner of the earth, maybe one day boundaries all over the earth will disappear as people cross boundaries and find out that, yes, there is a brotherhood of man in every corner.

Thank you all and God Bless you all.

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[Ben Ficklin]

Here you will find the economic study

Where is your study? What did you say the name of it was, The Doofus Report?

[Katya]

I agree with the both of you too...geez. It's called civilization...the nay sayers sound like the anti=road people in my state. The US has done little over the past thirty years to plan for future needs. Whatever the width of the road now, unless they plan for a later expansion, it will always be too small in the future.

[bobdsmith]

wow that's a pretty wide highway