4,000 miles in texas? Wow.
Dr. Zoo, isn't that theatre now The Institute of Phenomonology's Texas branch laboratory?
Posted on 06/12/2006 6:23:16 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.
Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.
As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.
Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.
NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a “non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.” Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.
Kansas City SmartPort Inc. is an “investor based organization supported by the public and private sector” to create the key hub on the NAFTA Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west, dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the country. A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in glowing terms: “For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality.”
The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an “SPP office” that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation Planning has finalized a plan such that “(m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.-Mexico border will be developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck studies will be constructed or implemented.” The report notes that new SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road. The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.
A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.
Great, more globalism. We greedy Americans just make too much money. But government is working on helping to bring down our wages to global levels.
Try this website for your sister. Some people are angry with Perry. This excerpt from the article will explain why they are angry.
http://www.texastollparty.com/ttp_trans_texas.php
excerpt.....
With only 5,000 miles of toll roads in the United States today, The Trans Texas Corridor is a 4,000 mile plan of supertollways more. The Corridor will include tollways for 12 passenger vehicles lanes, 4 truck lanes, 2 passenger train tracks, 2 commuters train tracks, 2 freight train tracks, underground lines for water, natural gas, petroleum, telecommunication, fiberoptics and overhead high-voltage electric transmission lines and electrical transmission towers.
Plans also include gas stations, garages, restaurants, hotels, stores, billboards, warehouses, freight interchange, intermodal transfer areas, passenger train stations, bus stations, parking facilities, dispatch control centers, maintenance facilities, pipeline pumping stations, and of course, toll booths. The Trans Texas Corridor is the largest engineering project ever proposed for Texas. This statewide network of corridors will measure a quarter mile wide and cost over $180 Billion dollars.
Secret deal with a private foreign company.
Gov. Rick Perry has had secret negations with a company from Spain, Cintra, to hold a 70 year concession for a portion of the Corridor. Perry and Cintra/Zachery withheld the agreement from the public, claiming it included proprietary information, even though taxpayer dollars to the tune of $3.5 million is going to Cintra's partner, Zachry, for planning.
Attorney General Greg Abbott rendered an opinion in June, 2005 that states the documents are public record, after the Houston Chronicle and other newspapers around Texas were refused when they asked to see the deal.
Cintra/Zachry and TxDOT filed a lawsuit against the AG in July, 2005 to keep the secret a secret.
The state will take 1/2 million acres, including the richest farm land in Texas called "The Blacklands".
excerpt....
The typical corridor section will require 146 acres of right of way per mile. The total anticipated right of way for the 4,000 miles of corridor is 584,000 acres.
Thank you for the link. I'll send it to her. She'll be fit to be tied.
"Great, more globalism."
You ain't seen nothin' yet.
The CFR site is loaded with info that is driving not only this administration but our Government in general. If you think that parties matter anymore you are mistaken.
See this:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9903/sovereignty_and_globalisation.html
OMG, America is planning to build a ROAD!!!
It's the end of the world!
Well, I sent it to her. Thanks again. Now I'll just wait for the fireworks to start.
This highway has been in the works since the early '90s, but I don't know if it was under Bush Sr. or Clinton.
Carolyn
This literally makes me sick to my stomach. Globalists within our country are destroying our country from within right before our very eyes, and no one questions any of it. Pathetic!
4,000 miles in texas? Wow.
Dr. Zoo, isn't that theatre now The Institute of Phenomonology's Texas branch laboratory?
Sadly, Mr. Bush is good at this. He prefers foreign workers over American workers.
There's a reason he does things like this "quietly", and it does not end up well for American workers.
http://www.spp.gov/
President George Bush, President Vicente Fox of Mexico, and Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada unveiled a blueprint for a safer and more prosperous North America when they announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) on March 23 in Waco, TX. They agreed on ambitious security and prosperity agendas to keep our borders closed to terrorism and open to trade. The SPP is based on the premise that security and our economic prosperity are mutually reinforcing, and recognizes that our three great nations are bound by a shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic institutions.
The SPP provides the framework to ensure that North America is the safest and best place to live and do business. The Partnership is a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the three countries through greater cooperation and information-sharing.
Guided by a Leaders Statement and Action Plans on Security and Prosperity, Cabinet Secretaries and Ministers convened trilateral working groups to develop concrete work plans and specific timetables for securing North America and ensuring legitimate travelers and cargo efficiently cross our shared borders; enhancing the competitive position of North American industries in the global marketplace; and, providing greater economic opportunities for all of our societies while maintaining high standards of health and safety.
Cintra/Zachry and TxDOT filed a lawsuit against the AG in July, 2005 to keep the secret a secret.
I guess most people failed to read the above in my post to pbrown. We need to keep everything secret. Sarcasm.
The rural people are the ones mainly affected as this foreign company will confiscate their land. They are to have 50 public hearing this summer. The State is just placating the people.
Looks like it follows US 82 and 287... my rancho will
be close enough to be a rest stop.
These are Canada and Mexico's SPP sites.
http://www.fac-aec.gc.ca/spp/spp-menu-en.asp
http://www.economia.gob.mx/work/snci/negociaciones/tlcan/htm/selec.htm
After studying the map, I agree it is logistical unviable. That's why I believe the government would come up with such a project!!!
I've been hearing rumours about the US, Canada, and Mexico, joing as one. Gotta tell ya, I don't want to be part of some North American Alliance. I am Canadian, have always been Canadian, and hope to die Canadian. I have nothing against Americans, Mexicans or most anyone else other than the Muslims who think they can come to My country and change the laws. We are good trading partners and neighbors, thats as far as it needs to go. And hell, I don't need Mexicans coming up here doing jobs Canadians won't do. I'm sure that will be the next phase. I do wonder what a frozen Mexican looks like though.
Yes, but no body knows. The research continues unabaited.
rahbert, thank goodness it isn't coming through my beloved Muleshoe.
You can make millions with a lemonaide stand or something like that. Good luck!
I can see it now:
Quietly? I'm not sure how more public knowledge this can be.
This makes me cringe!
"The Partnership is a trilateral effort"
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