4,000 miles in Texas would have to include all the potential mileage of many future highways of which Texas does need many miles built today to ease the conjestion. Texas currently has the following in interstate miles:
Texas, 17 routes, totaling 3,233.45 miles
The longest Interstate route is I-90 from Seattle WA to Boston MA at 3020.54 miles.
Well, regardless of what she meant, that's not what she said. And I believe what she said was meant to deceive.
Presently, there is not enough money in the highway fund to build or maintain the roads Texas needs. Plans for many of Texas future highways have been on the drawing boards for over 10 years, unfunded.
I-35 is already a horror to drive in many places as are I-10, 410 and 1604 in San Antonio (of which I'm most familiar). Used to be I could time my driving to avoid the crush but now it only lets up at night. Many "loops" are obsolute by the time they get funded and built. Whether it's a "corridor" which BTW would carry not only cars but power (gas and electric) lines and information (cables) or "toll roads", something will have to give.
Maybe if the feds and the state politicians would keep their hands out of the gasoline tax till we wouldn't be in this fix. Sorta like that Social Security "lock box" the fed broke into. But alas, they didn't.
Seems not many people here are willing to give Perry the benefit of the doubt when it come to the failed TTC. They won't concede that he understands the highway problem and the critical problem it will become in the future. They accuse him of taking bribes. Show me some evidence please.
Progress is painful.