Brownsville vies for major highway corridors McAllen, Laredo also in running for interstate linking Canada to Mexico By Gilberto SalinasThe Brownsville Herald March 6, 2005 — Brownsville is among three South Texas cities playing a game of musical chairs for two major highway corridors. When the music stops, one city will come out empty-handed in its bid to land Interstate-69 and Trans-Texas Corridor-35. Both projects remain in the planning stages, but state transportation officials have already narrowed the competitors to McAllen, Laredo and Brownsville. “There’s two legs and three locations. In the Rio Grande Valley, we’re going to get at...