Posted on 09/24/2007 7:30:30 AM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
“I’m not against the idea of building a highway from Mexico to Texas, but whoever wants to build it better obtain the land themselves, not using eminent domain.”
That’s simply not done with roads and for good reason. Getting 100% agreement on a 300 mile strip of land 500 feet across from the hundreds of landowners is impossible.
ED should be used only when necessary and for public purposes. But roads is exactly the case. (and few other cases are as strong, maybe electrical and utilities but that’s it.)
Personally, I don’t care about I69, I’ll never use it and unlike TTC35, don’t know anyone who will be effected. (might even be a viable alternative to TTC35) (the Feds have decided I10 and I69 are top priority for now)
I just came back from traveling through 8 southern states, all interstate highways. I came to the conclusion Texas has been screwing us. Setting us up for all these toll roads and such. There are sections between Waco and Dallas that have been under construction for over 30 yrs. This state has turned into Louisiana, corruption deluxe. I wouldn't trust Rick Perry and his cohorts to wipe my butt.
“Personally, I don’t care about I69, I’ll never use it and unlike TTC35, don’t know anyone who will be effected. (might even be a viable alternative to TTC35)”
YES, IT MIGHT BE. I think your comment makes my point, which is: Let us judge the road proposals as they are and not fold them up into a Vast RoadRing Conspiracy. TTC/Cintra is bad, but I69 may be fine.
“I came to the conclusion Texas has been screwing us. Setting us up for all these toll roads and such.”
I agree. We dont need these roads to be toll roads. If we really need them for the sake of international trade, for goodness sakes get the Federal govt to chip in and make it a proper interstate highway.
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