Paperwork delays map of Trans-Texas Corridor

Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | Thu, Feb. 23, 2006 | GORDON DICKSON

[Willie Green]

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.

Texans should know the proposed route of the Trans-Texas Corridor toll road from the Metroplex to San Antonio in three to six weeks, state officials said Wednesday.

An environmental study that began two years ago was supposed to be made public last month, but state and federal officials realized some of the documentation was incomplete, said Michael Behrens, executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation.

The 4,000-page study will show the path of the proposed high-speed road within a 10-mile study area. That's narrow enough for cities between Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio to determine whether the route will benefit them economically, and for property owners to know whether their land may be taken.

But before the study can be released, state officials must provide more information about potential "secondary" effects of the proposed road on economic development, water, air quality and other issues, said Amadeo Saenz, the state Transportation Department's assistant executive director for engineering operations.

"If we build a road and there is economic development, will the economic development have an impact on the environment? Will it require more utilities? You've got to address what impact it might have," Saenz said Wednesday.

Once the plan is made public, copies will be available at www.keeptexasmoving.org and at Transportation Department district offices and libraries statewide.

More than 50 public hearings will be held beginning in May in cities along the corridor route.

The agency hopes to submit a final environmental impact statement to the Federal Highway Administration by the end of the year, potentially clearing the way for construction to begin in 2007.

The Trans-Texas Corridor is Gov. Rick Perry's plan to build 4,000 miles of toll roads, high-speed rail lines and utilities crisscrossing the state.

But many Texans say they disagree with the concept of paying for roads with tolls.

[Willie Green]

ping

[yobid]

This should get the illegal pipeline flowing licky-split.

[isthisnickcool]

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, pictured above, works on finding the proposed route of the Trans-Texas Corridor. "Quit spinning me around! I need to find the route!" exclaimed Perry. Aides to Perry said that the Gov. should have the route worked out soon but had to stop searching for it today because his hair was mussed up from the searching. "Look at my damn hair!" demanded Perry. "It's power hair! Look at it! "It's fantastic! It's stunning! You must do what the hair tells you to! Kneel before my hair!"

Perry said he plans to allow a Spanish company to start construction of the corridor and then later let "those United Arab Emirates guys buy it if they can make Michael Jackson teach me to moon walk. Imagine this hair moonwalking!"

[vic ryan]

If it will get them out of Texas quicker let's build it today. And if it will all be toll roads we can make a buck while doing so. Sounds like a winner to me.

[potlatch]

[wolfcreek]

There are several interstates that will get you out of Texas pretty quickly and if you think this plan is a good idea, stay where your going. This state doesn't need any more folks.

[rahbert]

problem is that near to Ft Worth I35-W is a crappy drive
north or south any time. it needs to be at least 4 lanes
each way. unless we tax ourselves more to build it, or get
rawss perot to graciously donate some lucre, the corridor
is the only solution being considered.

[little jeremiah]

Is this what you were telling me about?

[dfwgator]

Everytime we drive from DFW to San Antonio, we end up stuck in traffic in the Austin area for at least an hour and a half.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The actual title of the article is "Trans-Texas Corridor's proposed route to be unveiled," unless it's been changed from what you put up. Thanks for the ping.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

State wants to fund new roads with tolls

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[deport]

If it will get them out of Texas quicker let's build it today.

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Move them rapidly through Texas.... But if they can just get a large portion of the cross country truck traffic off the Interstates it will be like adding a couple of new lanes...

[Willie Green]

The actual title of the article is "Trans-Texas Corridor's proposed route to be unveiled," unless it's been changed from what you put up.

???

I'm not sure what you're talking about.
I just checked the source link and the title is still the same as what I posted.
Perhaps you saw it reprinted with a different title at another source.

[lentulusgracchus]

Is this what you were telling me about?

Yes, this is the project. It's like an iceberg, though -- there is so much below the water about this deal, that you just don't see.

For example, when they're done, the city of Austin will be ringed with toll booths. You'll have to drive on some very small streets (and know your way around!) even to get into the city without paying tolls.

For another example, the actual agreements under which the corridor will be built are supersecret. Why? The Houston Chronicle is in court trying to pry the agreement loose so we can find out why. My own guess is that the agreement simply turns I-35 over to them, but we don't know because, yes, the actual agreement is secret!

Lastly, how the corridor fits into the Master Plan being put together by these Illuminati -- in secret, unaccountably -- is not at all made manifest to the People who are parties of the first part. It's secret government for secret purposes by people who don't need to show their faces, ever. Rick Perry is the only recognizable face here, and everyone knows he's just a pawn, a PR shill, in the unseen hands that actually conceived and are building this new infrastructure. It's totally Kafkaesque.

[lentulusgracchus]

the corridor is the only solution being considered.

Exactly. Is that what you want from the State of Texas, folks? Privatizing your infrastructure?

The state's man said, "toll roads, or slow roads, or no roads."

The right answer is, "Oh, yeah? Who said so?!

[lentulusgracchus]

Not shown in your diagram (thanx for putting up) is that all the trucks are owned by members of the ATA and built and registered in Mexico, and all the drivers are Mexican and getting paid joke wages, and all of the cargoes will arrive at their destinations without ever having been so much as touched by a citizen of the United States.

WHICH IS THE WHOLE IDEA.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[wolfcreek]

Try the 281 route. The scenery is much better and if your going to waste time, do it in one of the smaller towns along the way. Soon you will have the option of going around Austin on the new 130 tollway. Until then, I would only come through Austin at night.

[TXnMA]

If we build a road and there is economic development strangulation, will the economic development strangulation have an impact on the development citizens of rural and small-town Texas?