Texas Dept. of Trans choses stupidity and short sightedness re: TTC

[RB TexLa]

Trans Texas Corridor is dead, TxDOT says

12:34 PM CST on Tuesday, January 6, 2009
By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER / The Dallas Morning News
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AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Transportation announced this morning that it has officially killed the Trans Texas Corridor, saying that despite the project's visionary aspects, "it is clearly not the choice of Texans."

The announcement comes six years after Gov. Rick Perry shook up the state's transportation and political circles by unveiling an ambitious plan to stretch highways, rail lines and utilities for hundreds of miles along the Interstate 35 and Interstate 69 corridors.






http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/010609dnmetttc.43c00ac6.html

[jobycom]

1. TXDot was created to dream up big ideas and let them die.

High speed rail, monorails, superhighways, truck-only highways. Imagine the Texas that our state government has rejected.

[bluestateguy]

2. I was against it when I lived there

Private toll roads and massive eminent domain seizures: Uh, no.

[Arctic Dave]

3. No more "NAFTA Highway", I'm not heartbroken.

[RB TexLa]

4. Let's guess, are you going to say our sovereignty is "precious" and should be "cherished"?

:rofl: