[KarinG1]

Longview Mayor Jay Dean said he is disappointed that the proposed Interstate 69/Trans-Texas Corridor won't be built near the city.

Instead, the road will follow the existing U.S. 59 route, the Texas Department of Transportation announced Tuesday. U.S. 59 runs through Carthage, Marshall and Jefferson.

Sounds like Mayor Jay Dean has never been to Longview. It is less than 30 miles from Marshall, and he says it isn't near? I can't imagine what his concept of near amounts to.

[mnehring]

I believe he is referring to the hope it would be run between Marshall and Hallsville versus where it is proposed now between Marshall and Waskom (if it is following 59, logically it would go around Marshall and thus probably take the Scottsville 2199 bypass of 59). Because of the latter, Marshall would reap most of the benefit. If it were the former, we wouldn't have a 35k population town between Longview and the TTC proposal.