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TxDOT Announces Detour For Trans Texas Corridor

June 10, 2008

by: Vince Leibowitz, Burnt Orange Report

While it is too early to say exactly what impact TxDOT's decision to change the route of Trans-Texas Corridor/I-69 will have on much of East Texas, it is clear that TxDOT has finally wised up, and bowed, at long last, to popular grassroots and political pressure:

The Texas Department of Transportation said today it has abandoned plans to build part of the controversial Interstate 69/Trans-Texas Corridor through rural areas north and west of Houston.

Instead, TxDOT said it will stick to major highways - principally U.S. 59 - for most of the route. Through the Houston area, it could stay on U.S. 59 or go on Loop 610 or the planned Grand Parkway. In South Texas, where many residents welcomed the corridor plan, part of the superhighway would go on U.S. 281, U.S. 77 and Texas 44.

Amazing.

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