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Posted on 01/19/2007 3:57:26 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
ANGLETON — Development of an interstate highway connecting the United States with bordering countries could improve the economy of Brazoria County, some city and county officials and business owners were told Thursday.
During the quarterly Economic Development Alliance of Brazoria County luncheon at the Angleton Recreation Center, Anne Culver, executive director of the I-69 Alliance, updated attendees about the alliance’s work and the status of the Interstate 69 development.
“Any major new infrastructure, even if it’s not located right down the middle of Brazoria County, it’s going to benefit Brazoria County,” Culver said after the luncheon. “It’s going to have better access. It creates permanent jobs and it can provide better connections to the communities and to the Port of Freeport.”
I-69 is designed to stretch 1,600 miles through eight states and connect Mexico, the United States and Canada, according to the KeepTexasMoving.org Web site. The portion of the interstate inside Texas is part of Gov. Rick Perry’s plans for building a north-south highway through Texas called the Trans Texas Corridor.
“This has always been a 20-year project,” Culver said at the luncheon. “Right now, TxDOT is surveying a 50-mile area of land. TxDOT will finish Tier 1 this year and narrow its location to four miles or less.”
It wasn’t the Texas Department of Transportation’s plan to run the highway through Brazoria County, but rather to make it follow the paths of highways 52, 281 and 77, she said.
But after the county consulted with the highway department, it has added Brazoria County to its study area, said David Stedman, president of the Economic Development Alliance for Brazoria County. If the highway doesn’t run through the county, area economic developers will try to work with the highway department to build a highway connector to link the interstate with the county or Port Freeport.
“We frequently get inquiries for new facilities, and one of the requirements is that it has to have access to an interstate, and, of course, we don’t have one in Brazoria County,” Stedman said. “So if we could be connected to I-69, that would be a huge incentive just in itself.”
The I-69 Alliance is an advocacy group formed in the early 1990s to advance the development of I-69, Culver said. But when Perry announced in 2002 his plans to develop the Trans Texas Corridor, the alliance formed a partnership with the highway department to combine the projects.
During the luncheon, Donald Payne, director of Brazosport College’s Department of Economic Forecasting, said the county has seen 13 consecutive months of increased economic development, and the county’s unemployment rate has dropped to 12,000 from 20,000 between November 2005 and November 2006.
Web Posted: 01/18/2007 09:10 PM CST
Meena Thiruvengadam
Express-News Business Writer
San Antonio is in the midst of an "economic miracle," and French businesses want to be part of it, the country's U.S. ambassador said here Thursday. There are three areas in particular — mass transit, medicine and tourism — in which French companies can help San Antonio develop more quickly, Jean-David Levitte said during a luncheon at the Westin Riverwalk.
"These are three areas that are very important for the economy of San Antonio as well as three areas of our economy where we have really a technological edge," he said.
The country's companies could be instrumental in the implementation of the proposed Trans Texas Corridor, said J. Tullos Wells, a San Antonio lawyer, honorary consul of Canada and chairman of the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio, the group hosting the luncheon.
"They understand commuter rail and mass transit as well as anyone else on the planet," Wells said.
With 150 companies responsible for 50,000 jobs here, Levitte said France already is Texas' second-largest foreign direct investor.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
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what does a BINGO number have to do with anything ...
ping
BTTT
I-69 is being promoted in Indiana as well via a Republican Governor. It seems to be one of his biggest priorities even though no one in Indiana even wants it. It appears the Republicans still have an agenda that does not include the US citizens. Hope someone in this party wakes up soon.
Couldn't they think of a better number for this route? Years ago, NJ had to change route 69 to 31 because people kept stealing the signs.
bump.
I think I would've used I-67 myself. Nobody would give a rat's ass about having an I-67 sign in their dorm room.
Sex bloggers, illegals, and people who think national borders are old fashioned - start your engines!
An 'I 69' sign in every bedroom! Now that'd be a winning slogan for a politician's campaign.
Here's another Hoosier that's not real convinced about needing a new I-69 in Indiana. And you're right, I got to wonder about the Pubbies here in the state as well as nationally.
First thing I thought of was Bill clinton was lobbying for this
maybe its time WE wake up. either take the party BACK, or start a new one....
"I got to wonder about the Pubbies here in the state as well as nationally."
its not just the pubbies, its politicians in general who appear to have been paid off.
The corridor would probably alleviate a lot of interstate traffic on I-94 that runs across southern Michigan to Detroit and then Canada. The number of trucks on I-69 currently is slim next to I-94, which can be wall to wall semis. I'm not sure how this would impact the state's economy...I-94 could certainly use the relief but the communities on I-69 such as Lansing and Flint would be affected.
I did notice that 127 through Michigan is considered an alternate. Are they nuts??? 127 is split in Jackson -- coming north, you actually have to get on I-94 and go west to catch 127 again! The interchange in Jackson is scheduled for a complete overhaul over the next couple of years...it's been needed for a long time (it's downright dangerous), but maybe this is part of the eventual corridor plan?
You got that right!
"It means a lot of growth and tax base coming in, both something we need here."
What kind of growth? Unless there is another driver an interstate by itself usually only drives growth in gas station jobs.
In return for those low paying jobs there will be an even easier way for illegals to come in and take those from the Americans that don't want them.
Commissioned by Bill Clinton, presumably.
Regards, Ivan
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