The state of Texas should improve its existing north/south highways and forget about the rest. Any increased port capacity needed to offload Asian goods headed for the US should come from expansion of our west coast ports, not from ports in Mexico.
However they want to spin it, this is just one more scheme to eliminate jobs in the US (in this case port workers and truckers) and use the cheaper labor south of the border.
Supporters even say it will bring imported goods in more “efficiently”, in other words cheaper by eliminating more jobs in the US and giving them to Mexicans.
“The state of Texas should improve its existing north/south highways and forget about the rest. “
Yeah, but building a new highway is cheaper than buying all the land on I-35 in order to expand it. JMHO.
The TTC is way over-engineered and they ought to kick out the Cintra folks... but not all new highways are bad.