[purpleraine]

I am far from an expert on this topic, but what’s wrong with building a couple of bypasses around several cities and widening I-35 or I-29?

[muawiyah]

These guys don't want roads. Some of 'em want to return Texas to the days when cows roamed free and the women folk fried up chicken all day long while the men hoed the dried out claypan trying to grow a patch of corn.

And that's as good as it gets with the anti-road crew. Tney're happy to have a couple of Mexicans on the place to kind of look after things and that's it.

Did you know how much peyote they can grow in Texas? It's phenomenal.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I am far from an expert on this topic, but what’s wrong with building a couple of bypasses around several cities and widening I-35 or I-29?

Nothing, as far as I know. And some of that could probably be tax-financed if some of the state gasoline tax wasn't being diverted to public skrools, DPS, and other things.

I-35 is being widened to six lanes south of DFW, but widening it beyond that would be a really expensive proposition, since TxDOT would have to purchase expensive (and presumably developed) land along the highway. And don't you mean I-27?