[TXnMA]

Sounds good, but I'll trust and believe it when:

1. RINO Rick Perry no longer has an office in Texas government

2. TxDOT is forced to return to its original status as the Texas Highway Department -- period...

3. Texas' highway construction is under an elected Commisioner...

4. An alternate highway (only) is under construction.

[Uncle Miltie]

Wow! Big win.

[muawiyah]

Don’t be fooled with the name change ~ it’s now I-69 and it’s being built as we speak!

[TXnMA]

PING for Good news -- if true.

TSR, I think that this one might be worthy of a ping to your list...

[GQuagmire]

Consider yourself lucky. If they only pulled the plug on the Big Dig......(were you here during it?)

[TXnMA]

Please correct the (saya says) typo in the title to make it more searchable...

(The POST form's tiny font size on this hi-res screen is a real challenge for these old eyes...)

Thanks!

TXnMA

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Separate lanes for large trucks seemed like a good idea, for several reasons.

[bigbob]

So, I guess if they wanted a corridor there, they’d build it themselves.

[zeugma]

"Make no mistake: The Trans Texas Corridor as we have known it no longer exists," he said.

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?

[zeugma]

From the article: Saenz vowed, however, that TxDOT will continue to seek private partnerships for some of the individual toll projects that were once part of the TTC – assuming that the Legislature does not outlaw that practice.

THAT is what needs to be done. I sometimes wish we had the initiative process here in Texas.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It’s dead, Jim.

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[adm5]

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."

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.

[Sarajevo]

YEE-Haw! Now if we can rid ourselves of the local toll initiatives.

[CounterCounterCulture]

bookmarking

[lormand]

"RINO Rick Perry no longer has an office in Texas government"

Rick Perry derangement syndrome on parade.

[hadaclueonce]

Only way to kill it is to “salt the earth” from where it was born. “Salt the earth” is sending RINO Rick to retirement.

[XBob]

“Trust but Verify”, and learn not to trust.

They have just turned the Trans Texas Corridor into ‘jello’ so you can’t nail it to the wall.

The new name is “Innovative Connectivity Plan”

Here is a 20 page PDF file on the ‘new’ plan:
ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/library/reportsinnovative_connectivity.pdf