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Challenging the Wisdom of the Trans Texas Corridor.
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Trans-Texas corridor transportation proposal scales back rail hopes December 27, 2004 Tony Hartzel, The Dallas Morning News Dec. 27--At first glance, the $6 billion Trans-Texas Corridor proposal unveiled this month appears to be little more than a Texas-size toll road. Aside from a small rail relocation project around Austin, the plan for a privately operated toll road from the Red River to San Antonio made virtually no mention of potential rail and utility lines that have been prominent in discussions about the corridor. Plans for high-speed or intercity rail, which set off furious opposition from Texas landowners and some business heavyweights a decade ago, will not be part of the winning bidder's plans anytime soon. "We don't see at this time any high-speed trains happening," said Jose M. Lopez, director of U.S. and Latin American operations for Cintra, the Spanish company hired to build the first leg of the corridor plan by 2013. Rail lines may be part of a long-term master plan, which mentions rail projects after 2025. "Highways are much easier to plan and can come to fruition faster than railroads," Mr. Lopez said. Still, Gov. Rick Perry's ambitious Trans-Texas Corridor plan features echoes of the high-speed rail battle from the 1990s. In both cases, a...
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