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  • New Texas truck road drives NAFTA criticism

    04/10/2007 1:57:16 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 38 replies · 1,667+ views
    Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | April 9, 2007 | Sabrina Eaton
    WASHINGTON - A new Texas road being planned to accommodate truck traffic between the United States and Mexico has riled Ohio members of Congress who fear it's the first phase of a "NAFTA Superhighway" that would be used to funnel cheap imports to the Midwest as it links Mexico, the United States and Canada. Texas and federal highway officials deny that a proposed North-South toll road running parallel to Inter-state 35 is part of a planned international superhighway, and say there are no plans for a transcontinental road. They insist the new thoroughfare would merely handle some of the extra...