[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Last chance for I-69 corridor comments

CORPUS CHRISTI — Those who want to comment on the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor 69, aka Interstate 69, have one more week to do it.

The deadline for submitting comment to the Texas Department of Transportation on I-69's draft environmental impact statement, originally March 19, was extended to April 18.

A copy of the statement is available at ttc.keeptexasmoving.com/projects/i69/deis_overview.aspx.

The corridor is a planned 1,600-mile national highway connecting Mexico, the United States and Canada. Eight states are involved in the project.

In Texas, I-69 will be developed under the Trans-Texas Corridor master plan. The initial study area is roughly 650 miles long.

I-69's Texas portion includes a corridor from Texarkana to Houston, then Victoria, where it could branch out to Laredo, McAllen and/or Brownsville via State Highway 44 and U.S. highways 281 and 77. Corpus Christi-area public officials anticipate a huge economic impact from the project, depending on the routes it uses.

Many public comments received thus far recommend the Department of Transportation focus on using existing highways first with new corridors as a secondary option.

A final environmental impact statement is expected in late 2008. If a preferred corridor is selected, additional environmental studies will be needed to narrow the final alignment.

Public comment about the proposed draft environmental impact statement for the Trans-Texas Corridor 69, or I-69, can be submitted:

Via e-mail at ttc.keeptexasmoving.com/comments_questions/comments_i69.aspx

Via mail to:

I-69/TTC

P.O. Box 14428

Austin, TX 78761

The impact statement can be viewed by visiting ttc.keeptexasmoving.com/projects/i69/deis_overview.aspx.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Could you please take the garbage out of the title? Thanks.

[golfisnr1]

I take US 59 a couple of times a year from Texarkana to Houston. It keeps getting improved. It is a welcome drive instead of the interstates.

[AFreeBird]

I wish our Indiana politicians supported expanding existing roads. But noooooo, they want to create the all new terrain I-69 extension from Evansville to Indy. Cutting through farms, towns, forests. They don't care. They want to save ~20 minutes of drive time over expanding existing highways. 20 whole minutes. BFD.

This whole I-69 road deal is a scam.

[wolfcreek]

“The north-south interstate coming through here will do as much to raise the standard of living for people in this area than any other project.”

I don't know about the rest of the country but, in Texas, the N/S interstates have divided communities social/economically. The *other side of the tracks* if you will.

[zeugma]

"We need to try not to mistreat the landowners," Gorden said, "but we desperately need the highway. This part of Texas has more people living at or below the poverty level than any other part of Texas other than the valley. The north-south interstate coming through here will do as much to raise the standard of living for people in this area than any other project."

Gotta wonder if this fool has even seen the proposals. There will be very few exit and entrances. on this foreign tollway. Perhaps he would be better off encouraging local entrepreneurship than getting behind this unwanted boondoggle.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

You left out the http: in the links,fir example the comments link:

http://ttc.keeptexasmoving.com/comments_questions/comments_i69.aspx

[wolfcreek]

It's NOT necessary to sell your livelihood, your ass and your soul to participate in the global economy.