• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into ten more counties, Archer, Gregg, Hidalgo, Jim Wells, Kinney, Nolan, Rains, Red River, Taylor and Tyler. Among our membership are elected officials in 30 counties. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred fifty-nine Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into two more counties, Shelby and Upshur . Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred forty-nine Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, La Salle. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred forty-seven Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into two more counties, Edwards and Newton. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred forty-six Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Upton. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred forty-four Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Jefferson. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred forty-three Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership are updated. Membership now expands into nine more counties, Anderson, Angelina, Burnet, Cherokee, Delta, Hartley, Hood, Pecos and Robertson. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred forty-two Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into three more counties, Crockett, Rockwall and Wilson. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred thirty-three Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into three more counties, Gray, Potter and Somervell. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred thirty Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into four more counties, Midland, Rusk, Schleicher and Waller. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred twenty-seven Texas counties! [more]

January 21, 2005

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into two more counties, Gillespie and Houston. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred twenty-three Texas counties! [more]

January 19, 2005

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into two more counties, Bowie and Lynn. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred twenty-one Texas counties! [more]

January 14, 2005

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into four new counties, Coleman, Freestone, Jasper and Real. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred nineteen Texas counties! [more]

January 13, 2005

• CorridorWatch.org experiences a tremendous number of unique visitors today. A new single-day record was set at 2,731 visitors who together looked at 14,984 pages to generate 207,757 hits.

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into two new counties, Fisher and Jackson. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred fifteen Texas counties! [more]

January 12, 2005

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Ward. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred thirteen Texas counties! [more]

January 9, 2005

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into two more counties, Caldwell and Marion. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred twelve Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Deaf Smith. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred ten Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another three counties, Jones, Nacogdoches, and Panola. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred nine Texas counties! [more]

December 30, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Henderson. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred six Texas counties! [more]

December 29, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Hardin. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred five Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into four more counties, Cameron, Orange, Titus and Walker. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred four Texas counties! [more]

• 100 CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Scurry. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in one hundred Texas counties!  [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Johnson. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in ninety-nine Texas counties! [more]

December 16, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Llano. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in ninety-eight Texas counties! [more]

December 15, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, San Saba. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in ninety-seven Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership continues to grow. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in ninety-six Texas counties. Time Magazine reported in yesterday issue that CorridorWatch.org has among its member elected officials in six counties. That number is growing, today we have members who are elected officials in fifteen counties! [more]

•   This week's issue of Time Magazine includes a three-page story in titled, "The Next Wave in Superhighways; or A BIG, FAT TEXAS BOONDOGGLE?” (pp 40-42). The article raises the issue of whether the TTC is an innovative solution or a Texas-size boondoggle. It touches on using corridors to ship water across the state and bringing oil and gas from Mexico. It notes that the Texas Republican Party urges the legislature to repeal it. We're told that Texas is losing more land to sprawl than any other state. This article brings greater public attention to the TTC and the $1 million in donations made to the Governor who proposed the Corridor.  CorridorWatch.org is mentioned and the result has been hundreds of new visitors to our website. [link]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Wise. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in ninety-six Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org responds to the Transportation Commission's attack on the River of Trade Corridor Coalition.  [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, DeWitt. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in ninety-five Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into two more counties, Franklin and Howard. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in ninety-four Texas counties! [more]

November 22, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into two more counties, Mason and Throckmorton. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in ninety-two Texas counties! [more]

November 21, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Tom Green. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in ninety Texas counties! CorridorWatch.org has grown by ten counties in just the last two weeks. [more]

November 20, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Uvalde. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in eighty-nine Texas counties! [more]

November 18, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org attends the November meeting of the Texas Transportation Commission in Austin. During a discussion item status report on the evaluation of detailed proposals relating to the Trans Texas Corridor 35 project the Commission attacked the River of Trade Corridor Coalition (ROTCC). The end result was a warning to other cities not to oppose the TTC-35 plan and withdrawal of TxDOT support of initiatives coordinated by ROTCC advocate Dena International.  [more]

November 17, 2004

• Chairman Mike Krusee's House Committee on Transportation issued its Interim Report 2004. The primary focus of the report is on HB 3588. One portion of the report speaks for officials in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston saying, "... they will gladly toll whatever is needed for a larger share of transportation money freed up by those metropolitan areas who refuse to embrace tolling." [citation] The complete text has been put online by CorridorWatch.org [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Kleberg. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in eighty-eight Texas counties! [more]

November 16, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org website hits new activity record. Statewide media coverage of the Toll & Corridor Summit combined with David Stall's talk radio appearance and the general interest stirred by the ongoing TTC-35 meetings have driven CorridorWatch.org to set a new record. 516 individual visitors generated 28,879 hits during the 24-hours ending at midnight November 15, 2004. That is the largest number of hits generated on one day since CorridorWatch.org when on the Internet. The record for visitors on one day remains 525, set on March 8, 2004.

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Palo Pinto. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in eighty-seven Texas counties! [more]

November 15, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Cooke. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in seventy-nine Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org attends the October meeting of the Texas Transportation Commission in Austin. Gregg and Smith counties are granted authority to create the North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority (RMA).

October 27, 2004

• The number of states currently considering a gasoline tax hike is growing. In response to growing congestion and citing reports from the Texas Transportation Institution the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce is proposing it's members support an increase of Minnesota's per-gallon gas tax by 10 cents a gallon for the next 15 years. Today's St. Paul Pioneer Press reports the Chamber as saying the 10 cent tax hike together with increased vehicle tab fees would cost the average Minnesotan $1.40 more per week. [link]

October 25, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Blanco. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in seventy-eight Texas counties! [more]

• TxDOT conducted TTC-35 public meetings in Austin, Hebbronville and Paris. CorridorWatch.org leadership attended the meeting in Austin. [more]

October 22, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org posts the official comment form for the Trans-Texas Corridor TTC-35 (Oklahoma to Mexico/Gulf Coast Element) form today. The comment form can be downloaded over the Internet as a PDF file. Comments can be submitted on the form by any interested person. According to TxDOT comments must be submitted or postmarked by Friday, December 3, 2004. [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Lamar. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in seventy-seven Texas counties! [more]

October 21, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Morris. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in seventy-six Texas counties! [more]

• TxDOT conducted TTC-35 public meetings in Beeville, Hillsboro and Granbury. [more]

October 20, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another county, Parker. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in seventy-five Texas counties! [more]

• TxDOT conducted TTC-35 public meetings in Corsicana, Kingsville and Mineral Wells. An estimated 15 members of the general public attended the Corsicana meeting. [more]

• TxDOT announces that they are abandoning plans to convert an eight-mile segment of Texas 249 (Tomball Parkway) to a toll road. But tolls are not gone, some lanes will be free along side toll lanes. The TxDOT District Engineer Gary Trietsch told community leaders that the extension towards Navasota could still be built as a toll road. Transportation Commission Chairman Ric Williamson would be quoted in the Houston Chronicle as have said that he predicts, "in your lifetime most roads will have tolls." [link]

• State Representative Terry Keel and Austin City Councilman Brewster McCracken express extreme concern and request the State Comptroller's Office to perform an immediate comprehensive audit of the expenditures and operations of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA). [more]

• CorridorWatch.org attends the September meeting of the Texas Transportation Commission in Austin. Cameron County is granted authority to create a single-county Regional Mobility Authority (RMA).

September 28, 2004

• Transcripts of the July 29, 2004 and August 26, 2004 meetings of the Texas Transportation Commission have been added to the CorridorWatch.org website. [more]

September 24, 2004

• The Trans-Texas Corridor Mexico to Oklahoma segment (TTC-35) continues to move forward. TxDOT has scheduled forty-four Tier-II study area public meetings starting on October 19 and ending on November 18, 2004. Meetings will not be held in thirty-three other counties in the designated study area. Specific TTC-35 alternate routes will be made public on or before October 19, 2004. TxDOT tells the public that they will be able to review proposed corridor alternatives, ask questions and provide comments about this element. The meetings will be held from October 19 - November 19. [more]

• CorridorWatch.org spots TxDOT's new logo for the Trans-Texas Corridor on the TxDOT website.

September 22, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into three more counties, Hunt, Karnes and Live Oak. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in seventy-one Texas counties! [more]

September 20, 2004

• The City Development Corporation of El Campo goes on record opposing the building of the Trans Texas Corridor by passing a formal resolution. [more]

September 13, 2004

• Wharton County Commissioners Court adopted a Resolution opposing opposing the Trans Texas Corridor concept and calling for further public input. [more]

• The El Campo Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture goes on record opposing the building of the Trans Texas Corridor by passing a formal resolution. [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into another new county, Matagorda. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in sixty-nine Texas counties! [more]

August 27, 2004

• Governor Rick Perry issued a press release today that reports Texas setting the national pace on highway construction outspending all other states including California and New York. The release reads, in part, "Last year, House Bill 3588 which gave TxDOT new oversight authority, new planning and development tools and innovative financing options to address transportation needs for the state’s growing population. Proposition 14, passed by Texas voters last September also allowed the state to leverage up to $6 billion in mobility fund and highway fund bonds for construction projects. These efforts will expedite efficient implementation of the Trans Texas Corridor." [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership expands into two new counties, Lampasas and Lee. Today CorridorWatch.org represents members in sixty-eight Texas counties! [more]

August 26, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org attends the August meeting of the Texas Transportation Commission in Austin.

August 19, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership continues to expand. Today we have members in sixty-six Texas counties! [more]

August 17, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership continues to expand. Today we have members in sixty-five Texas counties! [more]

August 10, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership continues to expand. Today we have members in sixty-four Texas counties! [more]

August 6, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org adds it's comments to the clamor for statewide toll roads. [more]

August 4, 2004

• Today's edition of Harvey Kronberg's Quorum Report includes an article under the title, "CENTRAL TEXAS ANTI-TOLL ROAD BACKLASH BREWING."  The opening line of the piece reads, "Opponents of the Central Texas toll road plan are so furious that they are taking aim at everybody and everything that had anything to do with the creation of toll roads in Texas, and that includes the repeal of last session's House Bill 3588." Subscribers to Quorum Report will read more detail, including information about a new formed Austin organization that has targeted Mayor Will Wynn and Council Member Brewster McCracken for recall. Understanding that this in a statewide the new group called, Austin Toll Party, is also looking at the big picture including Governor Rick Perry, Representative Mike Krusee and other who are pushing toll road issues. [QuorumReport] [AustinTollParty]

• Under the headline, "Groups file suit to stop toll road," the Austin Business Journal reports today that the Save Our Springs Alliance and the Save Barton Creek Association have both filed a federal lawsuit this week in an effort to stop a planned toll road near Austin. [link]

• CorridorWatch.org membership continues to expand. Today we have members in sixty-three Texas counties! [more]

• CorridorWatch.org membership continues to expand. Today we have members in sixty-two Texas counties! [more]

July 17, 2004

• Front page headline of the El Campo Leader-News reads, "Public asks: can you get there from here?: Trans Texas corridor draws concerns." CorridorWatch.org co-founder David Stall addressed some 100 citizens of the community of El Campo at the invitation of the El Campo Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture and the City Development Corporation. The public was joined at the civic center by local and county officials as well as their State Representative Glenn Hegar who told the crowd that he, "was not aware of the ramifications of the proposed corridor." Of those in attendance, one gentleman in spoke in favor of corridor project while dozens more expressed their concern and displeasure. The closing quote in the article was from Rep. Hegar speaking about the legislative session in January, "We can go in and rip up this bill and throw it in the trash by repealing everything in it, or we can try to fix it." [more]

• The transcript of the Texas Transportation Commission May 27, 2004, meeting has been added to the CorridorWatch.org website.  [more]

July 14, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org co-founder David Stall was the live guest on The Davis Rankin Show on talk radio station KURV 710 AM broadcasting from Edinburg/Harlingen with coverage throughout the Rio Grande Valley. For an hour (9a-10a) David and host Davis Rankin discussed the TTC issues and concerns raised by CorridorWatch.org.

• CorridorWatch.org receives additional radio exposure this afternoon when a caller to the nationally syndicated Alex Jones radio talk show discusses the TTC and directs listeners to visit  CorridorWatch.org on the Internet. In Texas Alex Jones is heard on KWNX 1260 AM, Austin. This brief on-air mention of CorridorWatch.org generated hundreds of website visitors and many new CorridorWatch.org members.

• CorridorWatch.org co-founder David Stall addressed some 100 citizens of the community of El Campo at the invitation of the El Campo Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture and the City Development Corporation. The public was joined at the civic center by local and county officials as well as their State Representative Glenn Hegar. Participants called upon Rep. Hegar to explain his thoughts and position on the Corridor. In response he told the group that he did not know everything that was in the enabling legislation and the ramifications. Rep. Hegar concluded that the corridor may not be the statewide solution.  [more]

July 6, 2004

• The July 4th story, "Critics unified on toll roads," in the Sunday edition of the San Antonio Express News has been picked up by Associated Press leading to the headlines in today's issue of newspapers across the state. [more]

July 5, 2004

• Several television stations across Texas pick up the July 4th story of "two Republican activists and a Democratic lawmaker," criticizing Governor Perry's Texas toll road plans. The abbreviated Associated Press report includes, "Democratic state Representative Robby Cook of Eagle Lake says he wants to slow down or cancel the plan." [more]

July 4, 2004

• Front page headline of the Metro section in today's San Antonio Express News reads, "Critics unified on toll roads." The article reports Representative Robby Cook [D-Eagle Lake] as wanting to slow down or possibly cancel the Trans-Texas Corridor plan. Cook is quoted as saying the state, "is moving way too fast. I don't think the general public is aware of all the information they need to know and whether or not this is good for all areas." [more]

July 2, 2004

• Texas Representative District 30 candidate David Myers has taken a position on the Trans-Texas Corridor. In an article appearing in today's Victoria Advocate titled, "Rancher to run for Texas seat" Myers is quoted talking about citizen unhappiness over, "heavy-handed, sneaky tactics" used by state agencies. The Trans-Texas Corridor is described by Myers as, "a governmental land grab." Running as an independent, Myers says, "I think the citizens of Texas are beginning to lose confidence and trust in state government." [link]

July 1, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org reaches 60 Texas counties as our membership continues to expand.  [more]

June 28, 2004

• Governor Perry's Transportation Advisor Kris Heckmann addresses the Coupland Civic Association on the topic of the Trans-Texas Corridor. CorridorWatch.org founders David and Linda Stall were in attendance at the Coupland community meeting to hear Mr. Heckmann respond to the unhappy and sometimes angry public.  [more]

June 18, 2004

• An article appears in The Texas Observer titled, "In Search of the Next Crusade" and reports on the Republican's State Convention in San Antonio. "This year, the grassroots faithful passed a new plank in the platform urging the repeal of Perry’s transportation vision—the Trans-Texas Corridor—because it allows for eminent domain and is set up to reward commercial contractors."  [more]

June 15, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership continues to expand. Today we have members in fifty-eight Texas counties! [more]

June 12, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org membership continues to expand. Today we have members in fifty-seven Texas counties! [more]

June 9, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org has begun updating a map showing the poor attendance at the February 2004 TTC Public Hearings. [map]

June 8, 2004

• Fayette County Commissioner's Court Resolution in opposition to the Trans-Texas Corridor has been placed on CorridorWatch.org. [text & image]

• Membership expands into yet another county. CorridorWatch.org now has members in fifty-six Texas counties! [more]

June 6, 2004

• Membership expands into another county. CorridorWatch.org now has members in fifty-five Texas counties! [more]

June 5, 2004

• A headline in today's Ft. Worth Star-Telegram reads, "Platform opposes plan for gambling." The first line of the article reads, "Texas Republicans delivered a stinging rebuke to a pair of key initiatives backed by Gov. Rick Perry on Friday..." One those key initiatives is the Trans-Texas Corridor. [more]

June 4, 2004

• The 2004 Republican Party of Texas adopts a Party Platform that includes a plank titled, "Trans-Texas Corridor." The official Platform urges the repeal of House Bill 3588 and removal of all authorization and powers to construct and operate the Trans-Texas Corridor. [more]

• A story distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services has lead to headlines in more than a dozen of today's newspapers that read, "Texas Republicans say no to video gambling plan." The first line of the article reads, "Texas Republicans delivered a stinging rebuke to a pair of key initiatives backed by Gov. Rick Perry on Friday." One those key initiatives is the Trans-Texas Corridor. [more]

• Internet website Free State Standard posts a story titled, "The GOP and Gambling: More Infighting." The story comments on reports from the 2004 Republican State Convention in San Antonio that, "Republicans delivered a stinging rebuke to a pair of key initiatives backed by Gov. Rick Perry on Friday." The Trans-Texas Corridor is included in the commentary.  [more]

June 3, 2004

• CorridorWatch.org founder David Stall testified before the permanent Platform Committee late in the night of the last day of hearings at the 2004 Republican Party of Texas Convention in San Antonio. At the conclusion of the night the Platform Committee adopted its final report.