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t was a quick-and-dirty job, but somebody had to do it. The "it" in this case was a cost comparison between expanding Interstate 35 beyond six lanes and building the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor twin to I-35. The "somebody" was HNTB Corp., which is serving as the Texas Department of Transportation's general engineering consultant on the I-35 corridor project. It was hired to do the comparison after skeptical Texas senators asked questions at a March 1 hearing. It doesn't take a doctorate in ethics to divine that HNTB, which produced a 101-page report plus hernia-inducing exhibits in just three weeks, might...

February 8, 2007 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING - TEXAS SENATE Transportation & Homeland Security Committee Senator John Carona, Chairman Public Hearing on State Policy For: Toll Roads; Public Private Partnerships; and, The Trans Texas Corridor 8:30 AM – Thursday, March 1, 2007 Capitol Extension Auditorium URGENT NOTICE to CorridorWatch.org Members and Others Challenging the Wisdom of the TTC: We have expended years of effort challenging the TTC and the hard work is starting to payoff. We are getting the attention of those who can make a real change in the direction of the TTC. Now is not the time to...