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Challenging the Wisdom of the Trans Texas Corridor.
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Trans-Texas Corridor/What Price Progress? January 20, 2008 An editorial by Rita Hughes, Shelby County Today Representatives from TxDOT will be Center, February 4th, at the Center HS Campus at 6:00pm. They will be here to hold a public forum to inform local citizens about the upcoming Trans-Texas Corridor project. Although, the project is planned for a 50-year time frame; now is the time for citizens to voice their opinions, pro or con, about the project. It looks as if Shelby County will be smack-dab in the middle of I-69 & I-59 phase. The first phase is one to run parallel with 1-35. From my own research, here are some information about the TTC project. The TTC will be the first link in a NAFTA Superhighway running from Canada to Mexico with all highways in the country converging into and across Texas. The highways will extend 1200 feet across in width with another 200 feet designated for utilities and other uses. Each mile of highway will use 146 acres of land. The multi-lane highways will have 12 passenger lanes, 4 truck lanes, and at least 4 train track lanes. The cost of the project (at this time) is estimated at $200 billion dollars. It will require approximately 600,000 acres of private land, much from ranchers and farmers. The state of Texas has set aside 9 million dollars to do public relations work about the project. Concerns have also been raised about the fact that a foreign firm, Cintra Zachary, a consortium from Spain, has been hired to oversee the first phase. State officials say that amid accusation the state was giving land to a foreign entity; they insist the property would continue to be owned by Texas, with the foreign interest recouping their investments from toll revenues. Be sure and mark your calendar for the meeting if this is of interest to you This is just a brief part of information that can be found on various Internet sites. At the end of this article you will find several sites listed to assist in your research including TxDOT’s. Most of the sites will have maps that show the proposed routes across Texas.
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