Posted on 07/10/2008 1:31:59 PM PDT by SecAmndmt
Small-town leaders in Central Texas think they’ve found cracks in the Trans-Texas Corridor’s armor.
By PETER GORMAN
BARTLETT — Sitting in Lois and Jerry’s Restaurant, surrounded by a blue-jean and overalls lunch crowd, Mae Smith and Ralph Snyder don’t look like giant-killers. In fact, the small-town mayor (5’ 2”) and the salvage shop owner (6’ 6”) look more like a Mutt and Jeff comedy team.
But along with mayors, business leaders, and farmers in Bell County, north of Austin, and their counterparts in several other parts of the state, Smith and Snyder are taking on a Texas Goliath — the Trans-Texas Corridor, the monster transportation project being pushed by Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Department of Transportation.
(Excerpt) Read more at fwweekly.com ...
Ping-a-roony!
The people are speaking ....Again and LOUD!
Not the same. New info in new article. and it’s much longer.
What has happened on this since it first came up?
The first article was written in March. There are refrences to May in the second. They are not the same.
This is old news. Give me something current. What does Carona say about it?
Perhaps this part will tell you something.
“Perhaps worse news, from TxDOT’s point of view, is that, since the Central Texas group formed, four more local planning commissions have been formed in East Texas, two more are being organized on the other side of the state, and the Sierra Club is getting into the action, pointing out problems with the environmental assessment on another major portion of the TTC and asking that that work be delayed as well, until a new impact study is done.”
“The Sunset Advisory Commission has been very active over the past month. The Sunset staff members are finishing their initial reviews of the state agencies that are being reviewed this interim, and the Commission is holding hearings during which staff lays out their recommendations and each agency is given the opportunity to respond to the report. Among the agencies that the Commission reviewed in June were the Department of Public Safety and the Texas Department of Insurance. The Texas Department of Transportation is scheduled to be reviewed on July 15. For more information on the Sunset Commission and to read completed reports”
There you go again. Leftist Sierra Club and Leftist Wolfcreek.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
I skimmed through the article earlier, but dropped the idea of posting it when I saw a claim that TxDOT is apparently buying land for the project. I hadn’t seen that one elsewhere, so I found the claim suspect. But, now that somebody else posted this article...
BTTT
If you do, let me come with my camera and take some keepsakes.
They done nearly every other portion of this deal behind closed doors, what makes you think they’re not buying land on the sly?
Here’s a little example of some of the *private* dealings that effect the citizens of Texas.
http://www.texasmonthly.com/textalk/article?sid=4376
“There you go again. Leftist Sierra Club...”
I don’t understand your comments. Are you implying that opposition to the TTC is “leftist”?
DFW officials want 121 toll money moved to bank
The North Texas Regional Transportation Authority is worried about their money. The $3.2 billion that NTTA paid to get the 121 contract is in the state treasury and the Trans Authority is worried that the legislature will spend the money on something else. Like pork to reward campaign doners.
So now it is not just TxDot, but also the regional authorities.
Keep in mind that the legislature authorized everything that TxDot did. Then the legislators said they didn't understand what was in the legislation when they passed it.
Likewise, the legislature authorized the creation of the regional authorities. But the legislature in now trying to screw them out of their money.
Wolfcreek's and most of this opposition/power to the people is populist in nature. The earlier wave of populism in the US lead to FDR and the implementation of socialism.
The populist wants it free. In fact, state and federal govts are moving to tolls because opposition to raising the gas tax is so fierce. So now we see that these populists that didn't want more gas tax, faced with tolls, are suddenly in favor of socializing the cost by raising taxes.
New poll shows Texans want better roads, don't want to pay for them
Myself, I'm a hardcore capitalist, conservative, and republican. I agree with Reagan that the private sector can do it better than the public sector. Let's get away from socializtion/taxes and implement user fees.
Are you implying that opposition to the TTC is “leftist”?
Ben would sell his Sister if it would advance his globalist agenda. If you don’t agree with him, you’re a Leftist/Socialist.
Gotta wonder if he’s really from Texas some times. LOL!
Get over it, Ben.
The article only mention the Sierra Club as *one* of the woes for TxDot. One of many as it looks.
It never said they were working with any of the Citizen committees.
It is not difficult to recognize that central Texas is the leftist part of the state.
BTW, unlike you, I didn't threaten you. Are you still out to whip my ass?
You need to go to your room. LOL!
This isn’t about being a Leftist/Socialist. It about being a Texan and supporting other Texans. Something you’ve obviously forgotten how to do.
I know, you want me to pay for your ride. You want me to support you, comrade?
I just want you to have a nice weekend. Bark at ya later.
“The Sierra Club is a leftist group. They are opposed to TTC and any/all roads, preferring mass transit.”
If I drink water, and Stalin drank water, would that make me a leftist, or would it make Stalin a constitutionalist?
I’m a Stewards and ALF member, and I’ve attended one of their conferences in TX. The discussions centered around property rights, opposing the UN wildlands projects, opposing conservation easements (a tool used by the left to confiscate private property) etc. The same globalist forces who are opposed to private property rights, local control, limited representative government, liberty and the rule of law are promoting the TTC. So this implicit teaming up with the Sierra Club is an alliance of convenience to achieve the end of putting a stop to the TTC. Incidentally, opposition to the TTC is bipartisan here in TX - probably because many of our small town Democrats and Republicans are not particularly globalist, fascist or communist in their worldview. The same cannot be said for the TTC promoters.
BTW, no one expects “free” roads, but many opponents of the TTC wonder why it is that all of a sudden our federal and state gas taxes are unable to pay for maintaining the necessary infrastructure? Is it because the money has been borrowed (ie. stolen) to pay for other endeavors (eg. Iraq)?
“Myself, I’m a hardcore capitalist, conservative, and republican. I agree with Reagan that the private sector can do it better than the public sector. Let’s get away from socializtion/taxes and implement user fees.”
I’m a pro-free enterprise, social & fiscal conservative, pro-life, pro-property rights, pro-gun, pro-limited gov’t, pro-federalism constitutionalist. So I believe that the private sector can do it better than the public sector. Using eminent domain to seize farmland is not “free market”. Public-private partnerships are NOT conservative or capitalist.
“Your position is exactly the same as Obama’s and Hugo Chavez’.”
What a load of disingenuous crap.
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