Posted on 03/30/2011 8:39:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The (two) e-mails poured into our various inboxes this afternoon from different groups all (both) proclaiming, in one form or another that the Trans-Texas Corridor is back from the dead.
One of those e-mails specifically cited House Bill 3789, which was introduced by House Transportation Committee chairman Larry Phillips, R-Sherman. Phillips bill would allow for the resumption of public/private partnerships to help finance the construction of transportation infrastructure such as roads and freeways.
Such partnerships had been a key component of building the Trans-Texas Corridor a highly controversial project that became so politically untenable even its most ardent supporters had to retreat from the idea.
Phillips rejects the assertion that just because his bill brings back public/private partnerships that it means the Trans-Texas Corridor is back from the figurative political grave.
Phillips said that his bill allows for public/private only at the local level, which prevents the formation of a statewide partnership like the Trans-Texas Corridor. He also said that his proposal wont give the partnerships the power to declare eminent domain, another crucial difference from the Trans-Texas Corridor.
He also said that he was open to including further restrictions on the public/private partnerships, which he described as a good idea that had been tainted by the TTC.
No, I hsven’t fallen and busted anything...Yes, your information you linked us to makes sense...
The fact is we did remove the states funding mechanism for this damn thing in the last session...Both Private and Commercial mechanisms...
My conversation with my elected officials is always up to speed and to the point...Apparently others have decided to push the envelope again anyway to re-invigorate the project and the process...
We just need to make sure they are on to it and can stop it once again...
Unless you get a law saying that it is forbidden and any participants will get prison sentences it will keep popping up and popping up. There’s too much money to be made here for businessmen to turn their heads away.
Your chances of getting a law are somewhere between nil and none because there’s too much money to be made here for politicians to turn their heads away either.
Check yer FReepmail...
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