[Paleo Conservative]

I moved back to IN in 1991. Environmentalists were fighting the highway back then by swarming my neighborhood for signatures against the highway. Just saying.

No one is fighting this in Texas. South Texas needs the improvement in connection to the Interstate system. In fact there will be 2 north - south highways parallel to each other that will be called I-69 in the Rio Grande Valley. Corpus Christi wasn't connected till 1981 when I-37 finally was finished between San Antontio and Corpus Christi. That was 10 years after the original system was supposed to be finished. Parts of US-77 (which will be part of I-69) between Corpus Christi and Houston were still one lane each direction till 1987. US-77 still goes right through the town of Refugio.

[Paleo Conservative]

Correction, there will be 3 highways called I-69 in the RGV. They will be I-69W, I-69C, and I-69E.