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  • Trans-Texas Corridor hot issue in governor's race

    10/18/2006 7:18:15 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 25 replies · 1,483+ views
    KVUE News ^ | October 18, 2006 | Brad Watson
    The governor's race is becoming a referendum on the Trans-Texas Corridor toll road. Republican incumbent Gov. Rick Perry supports the TTC that would parallel Interstate 35 from Laredo to Oklahoma. However, it could gobble up 81,000 acres of rural land according to the Texas Department of Transportation. Also, a large chunk of the land used would be in North Texas. Lance Haynes, a Republican, said he wonders if his family's 68 acres in rural Collin County might be covered in concrete in the near future. The land lies within the path where the state could route the TTC and he's...