Trans-Texas Corridor is dead, TxDOT director says

Austin Statesman on line ^ | January 6, 2009 | Ben Wear

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

No, but my Mother lives along that route so I’ll send a note asking if she is hearing anything about it.

[ExSoldier]

If so, then it’s a victory for American sovereignty.

OTOH, if it still starts in Mexico and ends in Canada it's still the death of American sovereignty. I think this is a ruse to put the public to sleep until it's too late. A large coalition was formed sort of ad hoc to oppose this and that opposition got pretty powerful. I think this is just an end run around that group to still accomplish the original goals.

[AuntB]

“and the I-69 project from the Rio Grande Valley to Texarkana. But they will not be called the Trans-Texas Corridor.”

Thanks to Ron Paul’s porking! Yes, Ron got a big earmark for this project...yes, THAT Ron Paul who ‘doesn’t do pork’ (according to his fans)

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

OTOH, if it still starts in Mexico and ends in Canada it's still the death of American sovereignty. I think this is a ruse to put the public to sleep until it's too late. A large coalition was formed sort of ad hoc to oppose this and that opposition got pretty powerful. I think this is just an end run around that group to still accomplish the original goals.

Sort of like with the immigration amnesty bill last year - public opposition spiked it, but it'll be brought up again and again until they can sneak or ram it through.

[Proud_texan]

"It's not dead."

I couldn't agree more with your whole statement. Bureaucrats never give up, they just drop below the radar and do it anyway or keep on trying until they get their way.

[Peanut Gallery]

ping

[basil]

Best news I’ve had in a long while!

[stevie_d_64]

“TxDOT will lay out its new vision, Amacker said, in a document to be released later this morning called Vision 2009. We’ll update you when we’ve had a chance to read and digest what that says.”

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I have a vision too...

You can trim down, rename, repurpose, re-engineer, re-whatever...

We will be watching and waiting for you numbnuts to pull this down below radar again and try to get your way with your BS...We’ll be ready to switch the lights on and watch you scatter...

We should feel pretty good about this one folks...It was a good fight, and we won this battle...And it took a long time, lots of phonecalls, meetings, hearings, emails, letters...It was worth it...

Like they implied here...It’s not over...