Efforts to build the Trans-Texas Corridor continue to run into significant opposition.

January 17, 2008

By KTRH's John Labus

David Stall with Corridor Watch tells KTRH Morning News the proposed inter-modal roadway will hurt local economies.

"Well, our solutions are to go back to the plans that have been in place by metropolitan communities like Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth for the last 20 years. They know what they need; they know where the demands are at. They don't need a road that bypasses them; that moves that economic engine of transportation-commerce away from them."

Stall says you can't ease urban congestion with a roadway that bypasses major cities.

"This transportation corridor - the Trans-Texas Corridor - goes from where nobody lives to where nobody works. And to say it's going to solve urban congestion is really a myth."

Supporters of the largest road construction project in Texas history are holding a series of town hall meetings to push to program. The next meeting is scheduled tonight in Lufkin.

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