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Planning a move to San Antonio, so I'd sure like to get to the bottom and understand this issue. Any information or articles on this, please feel free to ping me to them, or direct me to a link. I can ferret through the BS pretty well, but appreciate honest opinions. Is this really about connecting highways and eliminating congestion, or is this making money for the contractor from Spain. Is this the BIG DIG TEXAS STYLE.. Boondoggle.. . ?? I'm trying to understand.

Sadly, this thing is going to be built whether anyone likes it or not. This freeway is going to be one in a series that are going to interconnect between Mexico, the US and Canada. It's out of our hands. The "powers to be" are the ones who have plotted out our future and it's just tough if we don't like it. It's globalization! It's going to enhance all the trade agreements. NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAA. This will expedite travel, trade, etc between the "Americas."

"Any information or articles on this, please feel free to ping me to them, or direct me to a link."

Seriously, I'd recommend that you try to get a copy of the contract that Perry just signed with Cintra (the Spanish toll road company). As I understand it, the critical parts are being kept secret for "proprietary" reasons - although what's really in there are probably monopoly-type protections for Cintra (it took 3 years to pry loose the contract that Cintra signed with Ontario for a similar project). If you cannot get to read that contract, you may want to seriously consider going to a state that doesn't have a Nixionan-type government.