TxDOT commissioner talks up TTC, I-69

Fort Bend Herald and Texas Coaster ^ | October 4, 2007 | Chris Sansone

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

With more than 1,000 people moving to Texas on a daily basis, a top state transportation official told an audience in Rosenberg Wednesday the I-69 portion of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) will bring not only economic development, it will bring much-needed funds to Fort Bend County.

Texas Transportation Commissioner Ted Houghton told business leaders attending the Fort Bend Regional Infrastructure Conference the TTC will act as a funding mechanism to allow construction and maintenance along the U.S. 59 corridor, as I-69 will incorporate the existing highway's “footprint”, drawing new highways, railways and utility rights of way along the route.

“The low tax system and less regulatory system is attractive for people to move to Texas to create opportunity and wealth,” Houghton said, “and we need to find ways to get it done.”

Houghton said the TTC-69 project would be broken up into six local sections, with the groups including county judges and city mayors of the jurisdictions the TTC route runs through, all of whom will help shape the corridor throughout the region.

“The entire corridor will not be 1,200-feet wide, which has been widely reported,” Houghton said. “It will all depend on what you want,” adding each group would decide what their portion of the corridor will look like.

Each route could include separate lanes for passenger vehicles and large trucks; freight railways; high-speed commuter railways; and infrastructure for utilities including water lines, oil and gas pipelines, and transmission lines for electricity, broadband and other telecommunications services.

Houghton said he met briefly with County Judge Bob Hebert and will be back in Fort Bend County Oct. 26 to “roll out the information” and get the region's group together.

“What I've heard today I like,” Hebert said following Houghton's remarks, “and I can't wait to read the fine print.”

The conference, sponsored by the Rosenberg-Richmond Area Chamber of Commerce, was held at the Rosenberg Civic Center.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[Dudoight]

I think some Oklahoma government official said something the other day which I interpreted as:

“that toll road ain’t coming through this state.”

[Dudoight]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906957/posts

I think the TTC and the above article are connected.

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[TLI]

“The entire corridor will not be 1,200-feet wide, “It will all depend on what you want,” adding each group would decide what their portion of the corridor will look like.

said the TTC-69 project would be broken up into six local sections,

separate lanes for passenger vehicles and
large trucks;
freight railways;
high-speed commuter railways;
and infrastructure for utilities
including water lines,
oil and gas pipelines,
and transmission lines for electricity,
broadband
and other telecommunications services.


Sooo, what Texas Transportation Commissioner Ted Houghton is saying is that a pipeline or freight rail line that is in the Corridor can proceed through one area, disappear at the whim of a different city mayor and then magically reappear in the next section? All because a judge or mayor said so?

That is remarkable! I had no idea the Texas Department of Transportation had mastered the science of teleportation!

[Jedidah]

Do you remember where you read/heard that? I’d like to see it.

[deport]

Some OK state senator saying it wasn’t coming through OK. It s uspect that becomes an OK problem as to how to manage their transportation systems once the traffic and congestion gets to their border.

I just hope Texas can find a way to relieve the congestion we have now have an move this traffic on through to the borders. It’s here today and will only get worse with time.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904775/posts

[Ben Ficklin]

Separate right of way.

[deport]

Separate right of way.

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Strange how different ones can purchase ROW to move goods and services.....

[TLI]

Separate right of way.

So, there will actually be several corridor construction areas being built? How many times will one area get sliced up by the mexican tollroad?

[Ben Ficklin]

Separate right of way for each transportation mode. They don't have all be located in the same right of way.

Transportation researchers recommended multi-modal because it required less land.

[TXnMA]

Thanks for the list of links

[hadaclueonce]

Texas Transportation Commissioner Ted Houghton told business leaders attending the Fort Bend Regional Infrastructure Conference the TTC will act as a funding mechanism to allow construction and maintenance along the U.S. 59 corridor, as I-69 will incorporate the existing highway’s “footprint”, drawing new highways, railways and utility rights of way along the route.

Remember that name when TXDOT goes on trial for kickbacks.

It is only time.