Posted on 02/19/2008 1:37:06 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Commerical trucks from Mexico already come into the country up Hwy.35 and Hwy.59. Our population is growing so much in those areas, cars and all commercial trucks are jamming the highways. Hwy. 35 through Austin is jammed every hour of the day and there are many car accidents. Highways have to be expanded. Citizens can drive the original highway or pay a toll for the new highways. Toll highways eliminate Texans having to pay more taxes to construct these highways.
A state senator friend of mine is on the State Highway Commission committee and no one knows highway construction more than he does. He rides “shotgun” on these projects to be sure Texans are protected.
I’m sure there was objection to the construction of US 59, 45, and 35 when that happened many years ago.
The point is, cars and commercial trucks already travel our highways and the glut will keep increasing and deaths will rise due to the congestion. New highways have to happen.
That’s a neat screen name. Devil hound?
I live in East Texas, have personally attended a couple of these hearings, and can tell you first hand that there was NO debate occurring at the ones I attended! There was instead universal contempt for the idea amoungst those citizens in attendance! I doubt that you could have found a single supporter!
They’re trying to do the same thing in eastern Colorado, twenty to thirty miles from the mountains, a north-south corridor, with right of way 5 miles from centerline and absolute commercial control of all real estate at the intersections or junctions. It’s being called the land grab. Violently opposed by locals, the locals are being told that it’s gonna happen so get over it. First rule of analysis: follow the money.
I don’t quite see why anybody would be against getting semis off the main roads.
Sounds great to me.
Right. Some thought Mussolini making the trains run on time was wonderful, too. And how about those great German autobahns!
The people of Texas don’t want it.
Do you still believe in government of, by and for the people?
More likely......landowners afraid to give up 10 feet of land don’t want it.
That is the people who show up to these meetings complaining in every state in the union.
That said, if voters went to the polls (which should be the way to do it) and rejected the idea, the state should not build the highways. Period. To do so anyway would be a violation of the trust of the people.
Most Freepers would wait until the highways look like LA across the entire country before taking any action.
Most Freepers would wait until the highways look like LA across the entire country before taking any action.
You’re really out of touch with what’s happening, I’m afraid to say. Our elites are now too arrogant to let the mere will of the people stop them from pushing forward with their grand plans.
If you came on down here to East Texas and voiced such an ignorant opinion, you'd quickly learn that your opinions are in a tiny minority. It would take about two minutes.
Granted, all I know is what the article said. If this plan is a bigger land grab than it sounds like, I would understand all the violent opposition.
And I would be opposed to doing this over the will of the people.
Unfortunately, state departments of transportation rarely care what the peons think.
You’ve been added.
I thought that one had been defeated. Or have they brought it back?
The Texas taxpayers.
I'm working on a detailed report, which I may post here as a FR after-action report. TSR, are you ready to ping something like that out to your list?
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Not to steal my own thunder, but, from talking with (mostly engineering) folks from top to bottom in TXDOT, it appears that the departure of Ric Willamson has allowed the folks who actually build things at TXDOT to (off-mike, at least) admit to the idiocy of the multi-mode corridor political scam (not "design") they were handed. They are now trying to address the issue in a way that is tailored to the lifestyles and needs of the specific counties through which the route passes.
As a highly-placed TXDOT engineer told me in confidence back in '05, "That monstrosity, (the 'everything in one, fenced mega-corridor') in all probability, will never be built". Now, more TXDOT folks are beginning to say that more openly...
If we (the public) do our part by insisting that the political hacks (starting with RINO RickGoodhair) be purged (and, if possible, indicted) -- I'm beginning to be hopeful that the folks who actually design and build roads at TXDOT really want to do what is best for all of Texas (both rural and urban).
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