I’ve heard about this ‘highway’ but can someone from TX give more details on it? What was the purpose to begin with?
I heard some years ago that the ultimate route was all the way to Canada? Does that sound right? Anyway just wondered if someone could provide some more details.
I’ve heard about this ‘highway’ but can someone from TX give more details on it? What was the purpose to begin with?
I heard some years ago that the ultimate route was all the way to Canada? Does that sound right? Anyway just wondered if someone could provide some more details.
The idea was that it would stretch from deep in Mexico up into Canada, and the idea is still alive on a national level through the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, which is part of another group that is being revived after Nobama picked up Bush and Perry's torch.
Companies could stop using American labor to unload ships from China by unloading them in Mexico and skipping the major American ports. Texans' bigger concern is that it requires fairly open borders since the cargo needs to move through the border quickly to be delivered as quick and cheap as possible. It also requires a lot of land being taken from Texans and given over to private companies.
It's a bigger part of the
North American SuperCorridor Coalition, which is a part of the
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, but they seem to have become very quiet for a short while
before Obama helped to revive it this year!
There is/was a Freeper who was keeping the
Wikipedia TTC article updated and it's still got a lot of information, although in the past people have tried to remove some of that.
There were a couple of private websites watching it as well:
CorridorWatch and
Trans-Texas Corridor News
I never understood how Perry and his cronies believed that putting a lot of Texas dockworkers out of a job and taking a lot of land from farmers, rangers, and other private owners would be good for the Texas economy in the long run.
At one time there was a lot on the internet about it, particularly beginning about 2007 but don’t know about any longer. I have friends in KC who were really worried about it going through there as KC was designated a major hub and it was going to take a whole lot of farm land.