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  • The Next Wave in Superhighways, or A Big, Fat Texas Boondoggle?

    11/30/2004 9:54:10 PM PST · by MarshallDillon · 82 replies · 5,786+ views
    TIME Magazine ^ | Monday, Dec. 06, 2004 | By CATHY BOOTH; THOMAS HUTTO
    The fight is on over a plan to build vast corridors for cars, trucks, trains — and almost everything else By CATHY BOOTH; THOMAS HUTTO To see the future of transportation in Texas, you have to drive out to the prairie north of Austin, past the sprawling plants of Dell and Samsung, to the farthest suburbs, where wild grass and cornfields nuzzle up to McMansions with their perfect green lawns. There, giant earthmovers, their wheels taller than a Texan in his boots, are ripping up the gummy, black soil to lay a 49-mile stretch of concrete tollway. State Highway 130,...