Show me how it will relieve congestion in the cities when the corridor goes nowhere close to the cities... especially the Dallas-Ft Worth area. 
Show me how it will relieve congestion in the cities when the corridor goes nowhere close to the cities... especially the Dallas-Ft Worth area.
It's really not that complicated. Do you think truckers like being stuck (and helping contributing to) rush hour traffic?
If you route through traffic around the cities, when that's not their final destination, you take them off of your existing roads.
Explain to me why transportation planners insist on making all north-south cross-state traffic go through Dallas-Fort Worth.
Why not alternate routes from Austin/San Antonio to OK City and Colorado? Improve 281 north-south to Wichita Falls, where the Bailey Turnpike awaits.
Why not some alternative routes from Houston north to Oklahoma, Tulsa, Kansas City? Remember the I-45 gridlock during Hurricane Rita evacuation? Why not improve existing roads northward to Lufkin, Tyler, Paris, where the Indian Nation Turnpike already waits for northbound traffic?
Either of these solutions would greatly decrease traffic on I-35.
Continuing to route additional traffic to and around DFW contributes to congestion, smog, and erosion of quality of life for the counties surrounding the Metroplex. Condensing traffic is not the answer. Dispersing it is better for the entire state.
Surely someone in Austin can look at current highway maps and see how inconvenient and boneheaded the same old, same old thinking is. Not to mention how underserved much of the state is because of lobbying and political pressure from DFW leadership.
Carving us up like a Christmas turkey...