I-69 still years away, officials say

The Monitor ^ | October 9, 2007 | Kyle Arnold

[Grams A]

Gov Perry was lamenting about limited hurricane evac routes for unfortunate residents in northern Mexico. One long continuous tunnel to Canada with no exits would seem to alleviate that problem.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[wolfcreek]

“About 1,000 miles of that would run through Texas, starting near Texarkana, running through Houston and ending in McAllen, Harlingen or Laredo.”

Unless this is a very windy road. this guy needs to check his facts.

Texarkana to McAllen = 624 miles.

[Hardastarboard]

The good news is we’ll all be able to use it to sneak over the border into Mexico, where we’ll stay illegally and put up a stink if they try to deport us. Right?

[Arrowhead1952]

Here is a babs striesand article.

http://www.590klbj.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=76723

****The toll road plan approved by “CAMPO” Includes several conditions that were added in an attempt to satisfy opponents. Travis County Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt says one day, the tolls could disappear.

Travis County Judge Sam Biscoe voted to support that condition, although he warned that it would likely be decades before the toll roads are finally paid for. Critics of the toll roads say other cities have issued similar statements, but are still collecting tolls after more than 30 years since their toll roads were built. ****

[CT-Freeper]

Here in my part of Connecticut there's a state highway, Route 69, that goes from New Haven, CT to Burlington, CT.

Quite a few people I know like to talk about taking "a drive down 69."

[GreenLanternCorps]

Any potential road would need to have space for six car lanes, four truck lanes and up to four rail lines, according to Doug Booher, environmental manager for TxDOT’s turnpike division.

Pure vintage TXDOT Bravo Sierra!!! There is zero functional justification for placing passenger vehicles, trucks and rail in the same right-of-way. They each have different functions, roadbed needs -- and different destinations.

The only justification for doing so is to build TXDOT's empire.

Outside of Texas, Interstate 69 is simply projected to be a conventional Interstate. The two short portions in Mississippi were just upgrading an existing to Interstate standards. Most of the road would be an upgrade but certain areas might require a new alignment.

The TTC project in Texas will eventually collapse of it's own weight. I-69 will emerge as a conventional interstate eventually without the excess add ons such as a rail road in the same corridor.

[TXnMA]

"The TTC project in Texas will eventually collapse of it's own weight. I-69 will emerge as a conventional interstate eventually without the excess add ons such as a rail road in the same corridor."

I exect so, too -- but only after Texas purges itself of Rick Perry, Ric Williamson, and all of the other megalomaniac power-grabbers and empire builders at TXDOT.

Many Texans take a simplistic look at that multifunction corridor monstrosity, and don't stop to realize that it is TXDOT's blatant attempt to grab for itself the functions of several other major Texas government agencies.

[Founding Father]

...and in college football, the Trojans pounded the Beavers last week in Oregon