Would you let me know what you find out?
The town hall meetings are a farce. They show a fancy movie of the moving of traffic on 6 lanes or more and a 2 lane rail road.
Then you draw a number if you wish to speak. They listen and write it all down.
They will NOT answer questions directed toward them.
The roads will be owned jointly in Texas by Zackary Construction and a foreign company owned by Mexico and Spain. The tolls will be very high and all land ajoining the roads will be owned by the consortium. Little access and egress will be provided.
Hope that helps a little in the way of an explaination.
Regarding the referendum, we call them ballot initiatives here. After a couple minutes of looking around I found this:
“Texas is one of only 3 western states where the state legislature denies citizens the right of initiative.”
So we’re basically screwed unless we can convince out progressively liberal legislature to place an initiative on the ballot, and I think it may be too late for that already. Guess I’ll make some phone calls to my local reps tomorrow and hope.