Posted on 01/06/2009 10:31:39 AM PST by TXnMA
10:50 AM CST on Tuesday, January 6, 2009
By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER / The Dallas Morning News
mlindenberger@dallasnews.com
AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Transportation announced this morning that it has officially killed the Trans Texas Corridor, saying that despite the project's visionary aspects, "it is clearly not the choice of Texans."
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Each of the dozens of projects that were linked together under the rubric of the TTC – including the Loop 9 project in Dallas and the I-69 project in the south – will remain as stand-alone projects, he said.
Make no mistake folks, this is merely a name change. Will anyone put money on it not being a foreign-owned toll road?
Oh yeah I forgot the fire ants, they are EVERYWHERE ya’ll! LOL!
THAT is what needs to be done. I sometimes wish we had the initiative process here in Texas.
Those people don’t care, it is worse where they live.
Well actually if the road beds were constructed the same way the Germans built their Autobahns, the roads would last 50+ years before needing any major repair as opposed to the every 12 to 20 years here in the U.S.
The road beds and the wearing surface of the Autobahn is twice that of whats found on our interstates here in the U.S. and thus are less susceptible to damage due to freeze/thaw cycles, settling, and premature wear.
It’s dead, Jim.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
The pavement on the Autobahn is 27” thick. In the U.S., it is typically 11”.
Now it's back to the old method of building a few miles at a time, separate rows for rail, pipelines, transmission lines, etc and in the meantime the congestion gets worse.
You are correct about the I-35 corridor from San Antonio north to the DFW area. There are some tollroads being constructed paralleling parts of I-35 that hopefully will help some. Hopefully the Sequin to north of Austin 130 will eventually get funded and built.
Agreed — but we have thousands of miles of exiting IHs (built to the lower standard) that we must live with, so moving the heavy cargo traffic onto a corridor built to Autobahn specs still makes sense.
BTTT
I'm more inclined to think the REAL reason this project has been cancelled has to do with economics, not whether Texans agreed or disagreed; TXDOT has known of this opinion for years, yet continued to push.
The main shipping ports of California are no longer terminally gridlocked with shipping containers. The idea was that Mexico would build a port/s capable of handling the bulk of China's goods, thus relieving congestion at The Port of Long Beach.
Enter Trans-Texas Corridor.
The U.S. recession has, for the time being, cured this congestion problem. Hence, no reason for TTC now.
Problem is, that it’s not just a new highway. It’s the “NAFTA Superhighway” that will eventually extend from Mexico to Canada, and is intended to be the vanguard for the open-borders of the “North American Community”.
The Pheonix may be dead...for the moment.
I miss my Kansas snow a bit, but I do like Texas. I won’t like the heat in summer, but I suppose I could get some misters for the backyard. Those things really helped at the state fair.
As for the other stuff, come on. :) A snake here and there won’t end me.
YEE-Haw! Now if we can rid ourselves of the local toll initiatives.
Nowadays, the "exiting" is pretty much clogged with 18-wheelers whose drivers are napping...
You left out the humidity. The awful, horrifying, debilitating humidity!!! (this is Hell...really...it is!)
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To paraphrase Lennart, my old Svenska fishing buddy,
"Ya, I sure miss the snow in MA -- I miss it -- but not veddy much!"
But I miss the snow shoveling nary a bit! <LOL!!!>
You should see the newly opened ‘Rest Stops’ at marker 282 on the Texas IH-35, about 50 miles north of Austin. Very high dollar and lots of room for trucks... I have been totally confused by these facilities since TxDOT has been crying the blues over lack of money and need for new toll roads.
BTW, I wonder if Goodhair’s son will lose his plush job with the Spanish company now?
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