Brake Lights: A traffic jam of opposition is facing the Trans-Texas Corridor.

Fort Worth Weekly ^ | March 7, 2007 | Peter Gorman

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[ARE SOLE]

In late February, a state audit report revealed that millions of public dollars have secretly been spent on the project

Is this still America?

Regards.

[ARE SOLE]

In late February, a state audit report revealed that millions of public dollars have secretly been spent on the project

Is this still America?

Regards.

[ARE SOLE]

Sorry for the double tap.


Regards.

[muawiyah]

Interesting to note the nature of the opposition to this highway in Texas ~ Indiana saw a full turnout of every leftwingnut in the Midwest to oppose their link in the road ~ I66 from Evansville to Indianapolis.

None of these people are at all consistent with their ideological expressions.

Bet they all smoke too much cheap Mexican merijuana though.

[Richard Kimball]

I don't think Perry's running for re-election, and since he started out as a Rat, I don't think he cares if Republicans pay at the ballot box next election. I don't like toll roads, but what has really bothered me about this is the way Perry's done it.

Opposition to the toll road dropped Perry from the high sixties in his first election to around 40 percent this time. If Carol and Kinky hadn't run, we could possibly be looking at a democrat in the governor's mansion. People didn't vote for Carol or Kinky, they voted against Perry. Carol's entire vote base just about came from the areas being considered for the corridor. Perry did something no democrat could do. He made all the small landowners hate Republicans.

[Man50D]

Wait a minute! I thought the Trans Texas corridor, like the NAU and SPP, doesn't exist! ;o)

[Halgr]

LOL

Thats a keen observation..... ;-)

Its getting quite alarming all the secret stuff going on....but of course the sheeple don't see it.

[ken21]

perry and his budds pushed this through with cintra and zachry years ago.

and then they presented it to the public.

it's a scam.

[Dick Bachert]

Just barely.

[Cacique]

btt

[WilliamofCarmichael]

In late February, a state audit report revealed that millions of public dollars have secretly been spent on the project and that hundreds of millions more might be needed.

Tomorrow's headline? "Popular talkshow host Michael Medved "goes nuts." Neighbors called police, "He's been acting funny for the past several weeks. Something about 'corsi' crackpot, lying SOBs, nut jobs. . . ."

[TXnMA]

Public money would pay for 55 percent, or $16.9 billion, of the rail projects touted as part of the TTC package. The state would be responsible for collecting from toll-jumpers. Under the contracts, the state could be forced to build some segments of the corridor that the private firms didn’t find profitable.

Whoa!!!

[Deo volente]

Michael Medved goes ballistic every time anyone mentions this subject.
He thinks it's all a paranoid obsession of some ultra right wingers.

Medved, and others, should wake up and smell the coffee. The destruction of our country proceeds apace, with the chief enabler of that destruction currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The North American Union is right around the corner.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[BaylorDad]

I would hate to think how driving conditions would be today with only the roads we had fifty years ago. I wont be around in fifty years but driving conditions wont be pretty.

I have yet to hear one alternative plan except, of course, do nothing.

[1066AD]

The tolls should go once the cost is paid, as happened on what is now I-30 between Dallas and Ft Worth.

I oppose any road that allows Mexican trucks etc to not encounter Customs & Immigration until somewhere in Kansas - as I posted earlier, no offramps until then!

Why was a Mexican company awarded the contract to become operator of the project ?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

bump.