Posted on 04/25/2005 11:47:22 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
CorridorWatch.org MEMBER BULLETIN - May 25, 2005
PLEASE TAKE 3-MINUTES TO SEND A MESSAGE
The Austin Toll Party organization has put a quick and easy e-mail letter on their website. Using the fill-in-the-blank web page form will send the Governor, Chairman Krusee and over 200 other elected state officials your opposition to the Trans-Texas Corridor and support for HB-3363.
Be sure to add your own objections and concerns in the box titled additional comments.
CLICK ON THIS LINK: http://www.austintollparty.com
DO NOT WAIT - DO IT RIGHT NOW !
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RALLY AT THE CAPITOL - TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2005 - 10:00AM
Wear YELLOW and meet on the South Lawn in front of the Texas Capitol.
Be there ! Bring your family and friends.
Demonstrate your support for HB-3363 (2-year moratorium on the TTC).
We need this important 2-year opportunity (HB3363) to explain to the public and legislature why we believe the TTC is a terrible idea for Texas.
David & Linda Stall CorridorWatch.org
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
WHOOOPS! Wrong ping list there! Now, THIS is the Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
gracias, will do.
BTTT!!!!!!!!
I support the corridor...
You either live in an urban area, or you have your head where it is in no danger from sunburn...
neither...how about you?
Rural -- and you're definiitely in the dark if you believe the TTC will do anything but irreparable harm to rural Texas and rural Texans.
Rural -- and you're definiitely in the dark if you believe the TTC will do anything but irreparable harm to rural Texas and rural Texans.
OH! I get it now "the poor farmers"...who live in their own little world. They said the same thing about the railroad and the highway system and the interstate system...
I think the corridore is great. Lots of lanes of traffic, trains and fiberoptics. Since it will get no federal funding the speed limit will be 85 miles an hour. It will populate some rural areas but it will bring new business as well.
exactly...
I don't mean to sound rude, but we just have two different opinions on the topic. I am sure you have very good reasons to be against it, but I good reasons to be for it. The head up the butt comment kind of set me off, because I live in a small town of less than 2500 (hour drive to anything bigger).
Please re-read my original remark. I referred to a shaded place; you imposed your own anatomical interpretation on something I didn''t say.
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I live ten miles outside a town the same size as yours -- that is dependent on revenue from travelers that pass through it.
Take a look at TXDOT's description of the TTC. It will not be limited access, like the interstates -- it will be zero access between major population centers. To understand why, just try to sketch an all-direction entry & exit interchange for both autos and trucks -- that must cross over each other and over rail lines.
Those entry/exit points will be very expensive -- and very limited in number. Hence, towns like ours will lose all revenue from travelers on the TTC. Locals who want to work at an in-corridor service (or use the TTC) will have to drive to a major city to get on the corridor -- ZERO RURAL JOBS will be created.
The zero-access nature, plus the expense of quarter-mile-long crossovers, will make the TTC like a "Great Wall of Texas" that chops Texas into isolated segments. There is just no way that a for-profit outfit is going to provide crossovers for every farm road -- much less the thousands of county roads that wil be dead-ended at the TTC fence.
I live in the far northeast of Texas, and TTC-69 is planned to pass between me and the town where we shop. More than likely, all my (and my neighbors') business will go to Vivian, LA.
I have no idea where your town is, but, I defy you to name a single positive, long-term economic (or social) benefit your small, rural town will derive frfom the TTC.
Thanks for the ping!
I do like that aspect. By the way, didn't Congress and President Clinton get rid of federal speed limits in 1995 or thereabouts?
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