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The folks who packed the Rosenberg Civic Center Thursday night were angry. “I don’t know why they are blowing smoke and tell us what they want this road,”
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Fort Bend folks
don't care for
Trans-Texas Corridor
either
January 25,
2008
If Texas Department of Transportation officials were looking to gain support for the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor Thursday night, Fort Bend County wasn’t the place to be. The folks who packed the Rosenberg Civic Center Thursday night were angry. “This will wipe me out. How is this in my best interest?,” East Bernard resident Dee Bond asked of state transportation officials.
“Why can’t you
work with what ya’ll
got? Instead of
going off in a
different
direction,” asked
Houston resident
Doug Bilbrey.
Most of the 600
people who crowded
Rosenberg’s Civic
Center Thursday are
landowners who are
afraid the proposed
highway will swallow
up their homes and
prime farmland
that’s been in
families for
generations.
“If this is
gaining so much
opposition, do we
want this road or do
we not want this
road?” said Wharton
resident Dianne Coan.
The response to
the state’s plan was
just as hostile in
Fort Bend County
Thursday as
residents in Waller
County were the
night before.
“I don’t know why
they are blowing
smoke and tell us
what they want this
road,” El Campo
resident David Coan
complained.
The Trans-Texas
Corridor, also known
as I-69, would have
lanes for
18-wheelers as well
as space for trains
and it would stretch
from the border to
near Houston and on
to Arkansas.
It would
eventually criss-cross
the state. But no
one at the meeting
Thursday wanted it.
TxDOT says the
highways are needed
to help keep up with
the state’s booming
population and make
it easier to
transport goods
between the U.S.,
Mexico and South
America.
TxDOT told the
crowd the highway is
still years from
being built, but
that was little
comfort when it’s
your land in the
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