[Weight of Glory]

This is not the TTC. The Grand Parkway has been in the works for a very long time. Much of it is already built. Section F-2 will be built roughly two miles north from where I live. It is basically an outer-outer belt for Houston, and is meant to ease traffic in North Harris County by linking I-45 to 249, clearing the east-west traffic on FM 2920, Spring Cypress rd., and Louetta. Personally, I don't like it. But I don't work downtown. For those who do, they're pretty glad to see it go in. It can take up to 20-30 mins. just to get to I-45 on a work day. Here's a link showing all the sections.

http://www.grandpky.com/about%20us/default.asp

Also, this road will be needed because Exxon is building what may be its new national headquarters right next to where segment F-2 hits I-45. The Grand Parkway will really be helpful when some 8,000 new employees move into this area!

[BobL]

“This is not the TTC. The Grand Parkway has been in the works for a very long time.”

It’s TTC-light to me. I know the GP has been around for decades. It was first a freeway, then a toll road, now a monopolized private toll road...just as the TTC was going to be. That was always my problem with the TTC.

Anyway, I doubt that once Cintra does the math that they will want to have anything to do with it, as private toll roads without captive populations have a history of carnage in this country (Camino Cambio [sp., the one at the Mexico border] Dulles Extension, etc.).

I just wish this entire monopoly-private-toll road thing would just GO AWAY. And, I guess, the governor knows that just as well, considering that he waited until the legislature was disbanded to start this crap again.