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  • Opposition to Trans-Texas Corridor growing

    01/23/2008 3:09:14 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 28 replies · 162+ views
    KHOU.com ^ | January 23, 2008 | Rosa Flores and Shern-Min Chow
    More than 800 people packed a meeting hall in Hempstead for a public meeting on the Trans-Texas Corridor. Seven more public sessions are scheduled. Residents are speaking out about a controversial highway that would cut right through the state. The state plans to build a 4,000-mile network of super-highway toll roads. In Hempstead on Tuesday, many residents said that road could cost them their property. Odis Styers owns hundreds of acres north, east and west of town. But the traffic that now travels through on State Highway 290 could interrupt his peace. A TxDOT super highway could soon plow through...