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On Saturday, October 7, 2006, CorridorWatch.org will host their second Toll & Corridor Summit in Austin, Texas. CorridorWatch.org is pleased to announce Dr. Pat Choate as the featured lunch keynote speaker during the daylong Summit II meeting in Austin. A native of Maypearl, Texas, Pat Choate is an independent thinker unafraid to ruffle establishment feathers. With a doctorate in economics focused on the role of government and industries in economic development, Choate has made waves challenging the benefit of free trade. In 1993, he co-authored with H. Ross Perot the best-selling book "Save Your Job, Save Our Country: Why NAFTA...

Ever wanted to own a toll road? How about one with 85 mile-per-hour speed limits alongside a congested interstate -- one where you had exclusive rights to sell food, gas and lodging? You can buy all that and more if you've got a few billion dollars and can convince the Texas Transportation Commission to let you build the Trans-Texas Corridor. In 2002, Governor Rick Perry campaigned on a promise of a privately financed and operated toll road system -- 4,000 miles to be built over the next 50 years. The cost is estimated at $180 billion. Few within the transportation...