Some of them just giggle and try to steal the sign.
Posted on 01/23/2008 3:09:14 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
More than 800 people packed a meeting hall in Hempstead for a public meeting on the Trans-Texas Corridor. Seven more public sessions are scheduled.
Residents are speaking out about a controversial highway that would cut right through the state.
The state plans to build a 4,000-mile network of super-highway toll roads. In Hempstead on Tuesday, many residents said that road could cost them their property.
Odis Styers owns hundreds of acres north, east and west of town. But the traffic that now travels through on State Highway 290 could interrupt his peace.
A TxDOT super highway could soon plow through the middle of his property.
“They are talking about going through prime ranch country, prime farm country and that's limited,” said Styers. "I'm in the cattle business and that would put me out of business."
The I-69 Trans Texas Corridor would run from Mexico to Texarkana. Exactly how it will get from Point A to Point B is still up in the air. But a proposed map shows the area the state is now studying.
It’s wide swath of Texas land cutting through Waller County.
“We are looking at a new system to provide us for the next generation of jobs and congestion,” said TxDOT spokesman Norm Wigington. “If we do not do anything that means that there will be congestion. We know that people are coming here in great numbers.”
But business owners already here, don't want to see their town split down the middle.
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Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
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Will be interesting. Seeing as this is a part of Gov. Perry’s plans and will be his legacy to the State along with toll-roads.
just wait for the piaps or juan mccain to get elected.....they will insist on the completion with warp speed!!!!
That does not mean "right of way", just the general area where the road would be routed.
Time for Texas to learn about capitalism anyway, and a toll road system would be one technique.
With modern electronics, satellite tracking systems, and al sorts of other off the shelf wonders no reason ALL Texas roads can't be turned into tollroads.
Make the users pay!
Which takes longer? Condemnation proceedings for a fence on the border or condemnation proceedings for the corridor?
Any one want to place bets?
I’m confused guys. I thought the TTC was proposed to have it run north along I-35?
That’s TTC-35. This project is TTC-69, another part of the system.
Some of them just giggle and try to steal the sign.
It’s a south - north tollway....from what I know it appears to be a good idea. Like it or not the world is growing smaller and trade with Mexico may keep some of them down there as opposed to them being here in Texas... Some Texas FReepers are so eat up with the hate Rick Perry syndrome...if he said that sex was good....they would say it’s bad....
I think that if every person in Texas was against this boondoggle that Pretty Hair Perry would still build it. They have stolen massive amounts of our highway funds and used them for other stuff and now say we don’t have the money for upkeep.
So right now I am trying to figure out to whom I will vote for if he runs for office again. A dem or independent.
I’m wondering who will run. Kay Bailey I believe is interested. Dems, do we have the same old bunch... Sharp, Bell from Houston. It’s gonna be interesting and I think will start up soon.
Oh.
Great.
The TTC has “quick-take” (HB 3588). The Fence does not.
Has this former “yell leader” ever had an idea of his own?
Give Rino Rick a check and you to can be on the TXDOT board.
Texas Politics, the best system that money CAN/Does buy.
I hope KBH does not run. She does not believe in border protection, or at least she is not showing it while she is in DC.
I know. I hope we get some good alternatives by election time.
It is painfully obvious, you have done little homework in regards to the great state of Texas.
Texas dwarfs your state in every aspect of capitalism. We have one of the largest economies in the world.
Houston, Austin and Dallas are growing faster than most every major city in America.
Texas has two huge sea ports and land ports of entry that bring in millions of tons of goods per year.
Texas has high tech, oil, gas, tourism, agriculture, medical and financial industries that are second to none.
Time for us to learn about capitalism....puh-freakin-please.
What-chu got up their in Indiana....corn?
There are problems with this superhighway, that is for sure.
From what I understand, Spain will be collecting all the tolls. Frontage roads will not be maintained. Farms will be cut in half, with no connecting roadway to the other side. Eminent domain is taking families homesteads. Giuliani’s Law firm is representing the building of it. (I am not stating facts - just what I remember reading.)
I can hear it now - but I’ve got my freeper-slap-proof suit on, so go ahead.........
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