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.