Posted on 10/06/2009 4:39:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Texas Department of Transportation is pulling the last plug on the Trans-Texas Corridor, Gov. Rick Perry's embattled plan to build a toll-road network across the state.
The agency said earlier this year it was scaling down the project and dropping the name "Trans-Texas Corridor." Now, transportation officials say it's fully dead. Transportation Commissioner Bill Meadows told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of the decision in a report posted online Tuesday.
The news comes a day after Perry's Republican primary opponent, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, secured the coveted endorsement of the powerful Texas Farm Bureau — a vocal opponent of the corridor and a group that has been at odds with Perry over eminent domain and private property rights. Farmers and ranchers did not like the corridor plan because of the private land it threatened to take.
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Hopefully the last Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
It’s dead Jim.
W00H00!
I am happy for Texas residents if this is truly kaput.
I guess the loons will have to be happy with the Build-A-Burgers.
Let the bitch die!
Great news! And, just in time to kill it as an election issue.
Up here in DFW you can’t move without using a toll road. The NTTA is everywhere, and many place that you don’t know until the bills roll in...
So much for all those jobs for illegals.
I still think the bullet trains were a great idea. I guess it’s nothing but Southwest cattle calls and endless traffic jams on I-35 for Texas from now on.
What a pity.
All our hard work finally paid off!
What it takes, mostly, is for people to get up off their -- couches -- and let the PTB that "We ain't gonna put up with your (censored to maintain FR decorum) -- and we ain't backin' down!!!!!
Getting it to work is beside the point. Its a massive govt funded project which will have tons of graft. How will they afford their retirement plans if they cant steal our tax money?
Let it stay dead. Add a couple of lanes to I-35 instead
Public transportation works well with high density populations. Other places it just soaks up tax dollars.
The Texas corridor is dead along with the bubble economy that spawned it. Plus who in their right mind wants more direct access to and from Mexico, the bottomless pit of corruption, narcotraficantes and illegal aliens
You guys need to pull the plug on any politician that won’t get rid of those toll roads. And then demand them gone.
You already pay gas taxes for highway upkeep. Tell your leaders that’s what you want the money spent on, rather than mass transit rabbit holes.
If mass transit is a good idea, then taxes on tickets to ride should pay to support the system. If they can’t raise money in this manner, then the mass transit isn’t viable. Do away with it. Better yet, don’t build it in the first place.
When you’re right...you’re right!
We'll see. I'd bet not.
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