[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[jdm]

I-69 came out years ago.

I’ve got it on DVD.

/sarc

[Brilliant]

“transportation officials are still months from making a final decision about the location of the much-heralded Interstate 69 superhighway from Canada to Mexico.”

I don’t have any problem with this... As long as it’s a tunnel with no exits.

[IYellAtMyTV]

I-69, known as Trans-Texas Corridor 69 in the state of Texas, is a proposal for a 2,600-mile highway system running from Canada to Mexico.

I could get behind this idea, but only if there are no off-ramps between Mexico and Canada :-)

[Atchafalaya]

This was in today’s Townhall online:

http://www.townhall.com/content/18b82c48-cf75-4d2c-a501-82af424d6e8b

[live+let_live]

I know I have the brain of an adolescent boy trapt in my middle age body, but they can’t really be thinking of calling this road I-69?

[TXnMA]

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.

[dbacks]

Ahhh. I-69. Mutual sexual gratification with no fear of being screwed or pregnancy!!!

[AuntB]

Federal funding for huge highway projects is scarce. And there are concerns at the state level over where the road will go and how it will be funded, state officials say.

Ron Paul managed to get an earmark of 13 million for this in March.

The pdf w/ the $13Million line item for I69 is here:

http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/07/07/01/paul_earmarks/Transportation3.pdf

[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. ****