Posted on 03/09/2008 1:08:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
Just exactly where will they put it without destroying the areas it goes through?
Coyotes are pleased.
same debate when they developed I-70 and other parts of the interstate highway system. Ron Paul against it, good for KCMO? hmmm. sounds okay to me.
Personally I’m supportive of the broad idea of the TTC as a means to really planning and building an infrastructure that’ll be efficient and lasting. I’ved lived in areas like Southern California, Utah, Chicagoland and Northern Virginia where lack-of-planning has resulted in horrendous congestion. This congestion has taken away alot of my freedom of time, my freedom of money (i.e. spending on gas in an idle car) and freedom of life. I think the TTC will be a good means in the long run towards providing a better quality of life for people in Texas (and those who travel across Texas). I wish all state DOT(s) were as visionary as the Texans’.
What is not being told is the story behind this Trans-highway. It is designed to be a Mexico to Canada highway designed to supply goods being brought into the new Mexican super port from China. By bringing in all the Chinese junk to Mexico, all that shipping that usually comes into our West Coast ports will now come in to Meixco, and there go thousands of longshoremen and related American trucking jobs. The Mexican trucks coming in from Mexico will be uninspected, and the first stop is supposed to be Kansas City. Of course there will be lots of pull-offs along the way where the trucks can pull over to drop off their loads of drugs and illegals. This will be Jorge Bush’s final gift to America. More jobs and advantages for his Mexican pals, and one last chance to screw American workers and jobs.
It would be good to get the 18 wheelers OFF OUR ROADS.
The TTC has nothing to do with alleviating congestion.
Only naive people would buy that line of cow manure.
It is all about the creation of the North American Superstate and the end of the United States as a sovereign nation.
See post #7
Kudos to you both, you both got it right.
If this deal were on the up-and-up, it wouldn’t have been done in secret, via smoke-filled backrooms and a lot of “wink-winking”.
Despite the TxDOT’s push for it, Lt. Gov. Dewhurst has called their bluff and heard the majority of Texans who have attended TxDOT’s community meetings. The majority of Texans attending those meetings around the state have spoken out in opposition the the TTC, but TxDOT has gone selectively deaf and refuses to listen to the taxpayers.
The TTC is just another manifestation of the fact that government - at ALL levels - is out of control. If we don’t act quickly to reign them in, we will lose every vestige of being a free republic and will, instead, become the United Gulag of America.
You mean like the Bush-Kennedy-McCain non-amnesty amnesty bill last summer???
EXACTLY like that!!
That's because they are not required to get anyone's permission. All they have to do is give notice. That's what the public meetings are for . . . to gauge the level of Public Relations needed to soothe the herd.
“ersonally I’m supportive of the broad idea of the TTC as a means to really planning and building an infrastructure that’ll be efficient and lasting.”
I feel the same way coming from Atlanta. The article does not mention the route of the corridor. Better transportation infrastructure will do more to reduce dependence on foreign oil than burning our food.
Concur.
Proponents also assume that by using a fee based model most of the upkeep costs of the system will be paid for by usage.
Here we go with those unfounded "ASSUMPTIONS" again.
TxDOT has"assumed" that we would go along with their scheme. TxDOT has "assumed" that we would gladly hand over our property so they could lease it to Cintra-Zachry for profit. TxDOT has "assumed" we will be willing to pay to use this boondoggle.
TxDOT "assumed" wrong.
Was that sarcasm? Those 18 Wheelers pay a lot of road taxes to transport goods into and across our state. Toll roads will only increase the prices the consumer pays.
Come on we been told for months that this is not true!:)
BTTT
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