TxDOT KILLS Trans Texas Corridor!!!! (Houston, Dallas: 2009, buy, gated)

[TXTwizter]

From the Dallas Morning New website............The Texas Department of Transportation has officially killed the Trans Texas Corridor, saying the road project "is clearly not the choice of Texans." More details to come. http://www.dallasnews.com/

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....43c00ac6.html

Now maybe they will spend that money to build some High Speed rail from DFW/San Antonio/Houston/DFW......wishful thinking!

[bluescreen73]

Take that Gov. Goodhair.

[achtungpv]

I worked at TxDOT in planning back when the TTC was envisioned. We received a travel map scotch taped to a poorly cut out piece of corrugated box with the proposed corridors drawn in magic marker.

I really wish I had a camera at the time so I could've documented this historical document.

I also remember that our estimate we gave the Guv was 150B more than the number he told the press a few days later. Always wondered about that.

[bluescreen73]

You know what that highway was conceived to do, right? The ultimate goal of all those high-speed corridors they want to build is pretty dirty.

The road was intended to be an investment vehicle that would both line the pockets of the investors and lower shipping costs for American and Canadian companies. By bringing goods in via cheap deep-water Mexican ports and Mexican truck drivers, corporations could've put American truck drivers and dock workers out of business.

Plus what idiot thought that tying together roadways and critical infrastructure like electricity and data transmission into a single pipeline was a good idea? Can you say gigantic terrorist target?

[TXTwizter]

Here are a few more links.......

Trans-Texas Corridor is dead, TxDOT chief says | Front page | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

statesman.com

[awecelot]

Good.

The big thing that upset me about this was that the money spent on tolls would not be staying in Texas. Instead, it would go to Spain.

[Muhnay]

HELL YES! Great News!

[bostoner]

Originally Posted by achtungpv

I worked at TxDOT in planning back when the TTC was envisioned. We received a travel map scotch taped to a poorly cut out piece of corrugated box with the proposed corridors drawn in magic marker.

I really wish I had a camera at the time so I could've documented this historical document.

OMG, there goes my morning coffee all over the screen. Thanks! LOL

[desertsun41]

I didn't read the link provided yet, I will. I only wonder about some things mainly on Rt 59. Right now as we sit there is a massive widening of 59 from Kingwood to Porter. Before this from 610 to Kingwood. At most it is 5 lanes wide but mostly 4 wide with no useless unused HOV lane in the middle.

Now all I been reading, the new roadway was advertised as being so modern that it was going to make the current Interstate Highway system look like a cowpath. It was to be 12 lanes in each direction with high speed rail in the middle. There was only to be 2 exits from Houston, one in Cleveland and one in Luftkin.

Now I drive 59 every day. There are several DOT signs saying "future 69 Trans-TX corridor". Yet that's not what they are building there. Was the plan to tear up all this brand new roadway in just a couple years?

Oh yea......where does all the land go now that was already bought from land acquisitions and eminent domains? Can the origional owners buy it back or have it back? I betcha they try to sell the land back to the origional owners for more then they paid them for it.

[vseale]

Yeh!!!!!!

Now, to make sure the Legislature officially kills HB-3588, so it can't be revived under another name.