Google Map of "High Priority" Corridor from Canada to Mexico

Google Maps ^ | December 14, 2007 | Michael Pelletier

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

We're DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[mvpel]

http://www.canamex.org/PDF/WorkingPaper3.pdf

The CANAMEX Corridor states have committed over $3.8 billion for future highway capacity improvements for the corridor, mostly in urban areas. This programmed or planned investment along the corridor is estimated to be $2.27 billion in Arizona, $368 million in Nevada, $600 million in Utah, $341 million in Idaho, and $234 million in Montana. Many of the planned projects require significant funding outside of resources presently available to state agencies.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Are you talking about U.S. 83? I-83 runs north-south from Baltimore to Harrisburg.

[mvpel]

Don’t laugh. The congressman from there is the Chairman of the Transportation Committee - Oberstar. He’s been waiting for 30 years to make the pork flow.

So instead of a "Bridge to Nowhere," it's a "Freeway to Nowhere," eh?

[AmishDude]

See also: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep10/nhs/hipricorridors/ 876 views - Public Created on Dec 14 - Updated 4 hours ago By Michael - Rate this map - Write a comment

Created by Michael? Michael whom, pray tell?

If you're going to hand-draw a map, why are you littering Google with it instead of posting it on your refrigerator with a magnet, where it belongs?

[B-Cause]

[deport]

Call them what you like but it's a good chance that many of the US Citizens live somewhere near one of the Corridors should they ever get built....

Listing of High Priority Corridors

Section 1105(c) of ISTEA (P.L. 102-240), as amended through P.L. 109-59

No.	Corridor	Location
1	North-South Corridor	Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana
2	Avenue of the Saints Corridor	Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota
3	East-West Transamerica Corridor	Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California
4	Hoosier Heartland Industrial Corridor	Indiana and Ohio
5	I-73/74 North-South Corridor	Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina
6	United States Route 80 Corridor	Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia
7	East-West Corridor	Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee
8	Highway 412 East-West Corridor	Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma
9	United States Route 220 and the Appalachian Thruway Corridor	(I-99)Pennsylvania and New York
10	Appalachian Regional Corridor	Mississippi and Alabama
11	Appalachian Regional Corridor	Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee
12	United States Route 25E Corridor	Kentucky, Tennesee, Virginia
13	Raleigh-Norfolk Corridor State Route 64 and 17	North Carolina and Virginia
14	Heartland Expressway	Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming
15	Urban Highway Corridor--M-59	Michigan
16	Economic Lifeline Corridor	California, Arizona, and Nevada
17	Route 29 Corridor	North Carolina, Virginia and District of Columbia
18	I-69 Corridor	Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas
19	United States Route 395 Corridor	Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada
20	United States Route 59 Corridor (I-69)	Texas
21	United States Route 219 Corridor	New York and Pennsylvania
22	The Alameda Transportation Corridor	California
23	The Interstate Route 35 Corridor	Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska.
24	The Dalton Highway	Alaska
25	State Route 168	Virginia
26	The CANAMEX Corridor	Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Montana
27	The Camino Real Corridor	Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana
28	The Birmingham Northern Beltline	Alabama
29	The Coalfields Expressway	West Virginia and Virginia
30	Interstate Route 5	California, Oregon, and Washington
31	The Mon-Fayette Expressway and Southern Beltway	Pennsylvania and West Virginia
32	The Wisconsin Development Corridor	Wisconsin
33	The Capital Gateway Corridor	District of Columbia and Maryland
34	The Alameda Corridor East and Southwest Passage	California
35	Everett-Tacoma FAST Corridor	Washington
36	New York and Pennsylvania State Route 17 (I-86)	New York and Pennsylvania
37	United States Route 90	Louisiana
38	The Ports-to-Plains Corridor	Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado
39	United States Route 63	Arkansas
40	The Greensboro Corridor	Virginia and North Carolina
41	The Falls-to-Falls Corridor	Minnesota and Wisconsin
42	A portion of Corridor V of the Appalachian Development Highway System	Mississippi
43	The United States Route 95 Corridor	Idaho
44	The Lousiana Highway 1 Corridor	Louisiana
45	United States Route 78 Corridor and Corridor X of the Appalachian Development Highway System	Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama
46	Interstate Route 710	California
47	Interstate Route 87	New York
48	Route 50 High Plains Corridor	Kansas and Colorado
49	Atlantic Commerce Corridor	Florida
50	East-West Corridor	New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine
51	SPIRIT Corridor	Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas
52	Parallel to Arkansas 226	Arkansas
53	U.S. 6	Utah
54	California Farm-to-Market Corridor	California
55	Interstate 20-635-30-40	Texas and Arkansas
56	La Entrada al Pacifico Corridor	Texas
57	U.S. 41	Wisconsin
58	Theodore Roosevelt Expressway	South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana
59	Central North American Trade Corridor	North Dakota
60	Providence Beltline Corridor	Rhode Island
61	Missouri Corridors	Missouri
62	Georgia Developmental Highway System Corridors	Georgia
63	Liberty Corridor	New Jersey
64	Camden Corridors	New Jersey
65	Interstate Route 95	Connecticut
66	Interstate Route 91	Connecticut
67	Fairbanks-Yukon International Corridor	Alaska
68	Washoe County Corridor	Nevada
69	Cross Vallet Connector	California
70	Economic Lifeline Corridor	California, Arizona, and Nevada
71	High Desert Corridor/E-220	California and Nevada
72	North-South Corridor	Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana
73	Louisiana Highway 1	Louisiana
74	U. S. 90	Louisiana
75	Louisiana 28 Corridor	Louisiana
76	Interstate Route 75	Ohio
77	U.S. 24	Ohio
78	Interstate Route 71	Ohio
79	Interstate Route 376	Pennsylvania
80	Intercounty Connector	Maryland

Note: Some corridors are defined in detail, some more generally. The most inclusive corridor concept consistent with statutory language has been used for this listing.

Background

Beginning with the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), corridors have been designated in Federal transportation legislation as high priority corridors on the National Highway System (NHS) for inclusion in the 163,000-mile approved NHS as specific routes or general corridors. The ISTEA designated 21 corridors. Subsequent legislation added additional corridors and by the end of 2005, there were over 80 such corridors (including corridors that are subsumed or partly subsumed in other high priority corridors.) Some of the corridors are entirely within a single State such as Urban Highway Corridor along M-59 in Michigan or the Birmingham, Alabama Northern Beltline. Other corridors are multi-State such as the East-West Transamerica Corridor from Virginia through Kansas or the I-73/74 North-South Corridor from South Carolina through Michigan. Some corridors are along highways that are already essentially completed and carrying traffic such as Economic Lifeline Corridor along I-15 and I-40 in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Other corridors are generally along the path of anticipated future highways such as the corridor from Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, to the Lower Rio Grande Valley between Texas and Mexico. Finally, some of these corridors are described in detail in legislation, such as the the Dalton Highway from Deadhorse, Alaska to Fairbanks, Alaska. Others are broadly defined such as the Everett-Tacoma FAST [Freight Action Strategy for Everett-Seattle-Tacoma] Corridor in Washington State and some corridors are defined by reference to other legislation such as the Georgia Developmental Highway System Corridors identified in section 32-4-22 of the Official Code of Georgia, Annotated.

[TXnMA]

FYI, this map -- with TTC-69 turning eastward south of Marshall and toward Shreveport does put the corridor NIMBY. Nevertheless, the basic TTC "multimodal corridor" concept is a bad and stupid idea.

[texastoo]

You are right. It is U.S.83. It is better than most interstates as if has feeder roads on each side. Most U.S. highways don’t have feeder roads and few entrances and exits. I always thought it was an interstate as there is an old 2 lane U.S. 83 about 5 miles south running parallel.

Most people here think of it as an interstate.
Actually, it is an expressway. I just looked it up. It will be I 69 when Cintra takes it over. Paid for by the American taxpayer. It is already 8 lanes in places. Traffic is getting heavy on it probably due to the Mexican trucks.

[Centurion2000]

Well those would make wonderful invasion routes that’s for damned sure.

[Heartofsong83]

Most of it follows highways that are already 4 lanes wide...although there are some controversial sections (particularly through Indiana and through Texas, but the Texas part is more due to the TTC egos than anything...upgrading to an Interstate there is easy)

[Heartofsong83]

State Highway 61 (mostly 2 lanes) is the primary route to the border from there. Traffic volumes are not terribly high there, and any I-35 extension would be more due to regional demand than NAFTA traffic.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[nicmarlo]

These roads have already been built!

Who said they haven't been, except you? What's been said is that existing roads will be substantially widened, requiring eminent domain seizures to accommodate this widening.

Building upon existing roads is also how they continue to try to avoid informing citizens exactly their intentions, as they "piece meal" their infrastructure plans and never let onto how they are connected to other, intra and interstate roads/highways.

But, you already knew that.

[muawiyah]

The only dispute in Indiana (where I am located at this very moment) was manufactured by leftwingtards who didn't want any new pavement that would support "Corporate America".

There were also some Nativists in Southern Indiana who did not wish to have any more Outsiders visit the area than was necessary.

In the end the Leftwingtards and Nativists lost and the highway will be built between Evansville and Indianapolis. It already exists between Indianapolis and Michigan.

[Sarajevo]

OMG! We’re too late! These roads have already been built!

But, for the most part, they haven't been tolled yet. Follow the revenue....

[Toddsterpatriot]

Building upon existing roads is also how they continue to try to avoid informing citizens exactly their intentions, as they "piece meal" their infrastructure plans and never let onto how they are connected to other, intra and interstate roads/highways.

OMG!!! Roads connected to other roads, we're doomed.

[DManA]

There was a 10 year exhausting battle just to extend I 35 one mile in Duluth. Any attempt to drive it up the shore would invite civil disobedience.

I think it would be politically easier to upgrade 53 to International Falls (wich is already on the pork parade).

[wolfcreek]

I35(E) to Dallas from San Antonio hasn’t gone a day since I was a little boy without major sections being under construction. Now they’re working on I20 and I30 around Dallas.

Wonder why they continue to have construction after all these yrs? I suspect there has been a long term plan towards toll roads.

[wolfcreek]

So, will this be insightful, intelligent dialog or just more thread banging? (Please don't tell me "we've been over all of this before") There's an inquiring mind born every day.