Though Part Of TTC 69 Stalled, The Rest Steamrollers On To Connect With John Cornyn’s Mexican Superhighway
June 26, 2008 by Vince Leibowitz · 1 Comment
Although part of the controversial TTC 69 route of the Trans-Texas Corridor has been (or will be) altered, it’s full steam(roller) ahead on the southern aspect of the superhighway:
The second half of the massive Trans Texas Corridor will take a large step toward reality today, when state transportation officials award a $5 million design contract to a team of private toll road operators. The operators will develop a master plan for the portion of the project that will run from Northeast Texas to Houston and then to Mexico – about 650 miles.
Presumably, this will connect with John Cornyn’s Mexican Superhighway, the south-of-the-border version of the TTC that Cornyn proposes building with American tax dollars.
More on the contract itself:
TxDOT Abandons Plans To Build TTC 96 In Rural Areas…Was There A Political Reason?
June 10, 2008 by Vince Leibowitz · Leave a Comment
This is astonishing news:
Texans Can’t Trust TxDOT Says Sen. Watson
February 5, 2008 by Vince Leibowitz · Leave a Comment
Following the joint hearing of the Senate Committees on Transportation and Finance today, State Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) released the following statement:
Website Claims Trans Texas Corridor Will Pave Over Branch Davidian Site Near Waco
January 10, 2008 by Vince Leibowitz · Leave a Comment
We have no comment on this story by the Jones Report, except to say it is indeed interesting the kind of links you can find from Google Alerts:
A newly uncovered conceptual map reveals plans to pave a stretch of TTC-35 outside Waco over the rebuilt church of the Branch Davidians who were raided by ATF and FBI agents in 1993, killing many church members.
The TTC plan would add insult to injury for the infamous Davidian group that has already been more than wronged by governing forces. Traffic lanes would, according to the map, over-run almost half of the entire Branch Davidian property.
But the map conceptualizing future developments in Waco also reveals details about several coal plants the TxU energy giant was planning to build only a short distance south of the Davidian ‘compound’ as well as a new railway system to serve the infrastructure.
Makes your head spin, no? Ah, the conspiracy theorists.
