Posted on 04/18/2007 6:24:49 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
FEW issues find common ground among right-wing conservatives and left-of-center liberals. But the so-called "NAFTA Superhighway," potentially stretching from the Mexican border to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn., is apparently one of them.
Across the political spectrum people have worked themselves into a frenzy over a massive futuristic transportation project that may simply be a figment of their imagination. Talk of a new north-south Texas toll road to accommodate extra truck traffic coming from Mexico has renewed bipartisan passion about the feared superhighway.
There is almost a conspiratorial edge to some critics who are convinced that the "Trans-Texas Corridor," being planned by Texas and federal highway officials, is just the first phase of a much larger operation designed to run through the heart of the country itself.
Some, like Toledo Democrat Marcy Kaptur, envision a multiple lane highway facilitating the movement of cheap goods made by cheap labor to U.S. consumers. Ohio's leading NAFTA critic obviously worries that making it even easier to transport cut-rate products to American markets could have a profoundly adverse impact on American jobs, especially in the auto-manufacturing Midwest.
"It would be like a huge blood-line into our part of the country," she said. Ms. Kaptur has made fact-finding trips to Texas, where state transportation officials insist the new thoroughfare is simply a more efficient way to accommodate extra trucks traversing the state. There are no plans, they say, for a new superhighway.
Indeed, this could all be a simple case of adding one and one and imagining the worst.
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Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
BTTT
The trans-Texas corridor should not be mentioned without putting it in context as part of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), which encompasses Canada, the US, Mexico, central and South America in a massive transportation hub travel route through the all the Americas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Puebla_Panama
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=2518
In concept, it integrates the Americas far more than Europe is integrated.
bump.
Likewise, Plan Puebla Panama should not be mentioned without mentioning IIRSA.
” . . . massive futuristic transportation project that may simply be a figment of their imagination . . .”
THIS: http://www.nascocorridor.com/ is NOT a figment of anyone’s imagination.
Neither is this: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep10/nhs/hipricorridors/index.html
Or this:
http://www.keeptexasmoving.com/pdfs/deis_05/document/chapter_7_figure_7-1.pdf
Are you referring to the Decatur/Bridgeport area? What are they building there?
u rang?
I'm sure this Mary Kaptur, mentioned in the article, is acquainted with the proposed inland port in Columbus.
Thanks for the ping!
According to the fhwa website, only a few of these roads will be designated federal highways. Wonder what the rest will be? HMMMMMMMM?
You’re welcome.
It might be a little farther out, but theres a pretty wide swarth through one of the small towns, that runs, what looks like from horizon to horizon, north to south, with overpasses decorated with embeded Texas maps and stars, and a sign confirming the future Trans-Hiway. Haven’t been out there in awhile, but have noticed , it gets progressively bigger and bigger, each trip. Too big, for that neck of the woods!
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