Trans Texas Corridor (precusor to the NAFTA super highway)

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Although the gradual influx may bring greater changes in the long run, what disturbs residents most is the planned Interstate 69/Trans-Texas Corridor, or I-69/TTC for short.

If it is built, the corridor likely will start out as a four-lane divided tollway. Eventually, the Texas Department of Transportation could expand it to 1,200 feet in places, with toll lanes for cars and trucks; tracks for freight and passenger trains; and space for pipelines, power lines and communications.

The exact route has yet to be determined. TxDOT has recommended the route come from a study corridor, ranging from a quarter-mile to four miles wide, between Texarkana and Mexico. Most of the route will stay close to U.S. 59, the agency says, but to speed traffic around Houston, it veers through rural land west of the city.
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Although TxDOT has heard a nearly unanimous negative verdict from residents of the area, Dennis Mlcak is not sure how much that matters.

"They keep pushing this thing, and it keeps marching in a forward direction, so we can't really wait and see if it will die of its own accord," he said.

The Mlcaks' friends, Dane and Maxine Rudloff, whose property lies along I-10 near Sealy, have been through this before. When I-10 was built in the 1960s, the family had to sell 13Â½ acres for right of way. The road cut off 50 acres from what was left.

"We could see it, but eventually we sold it," Dane Rudloff said. "My mother-in-law went to her grave fuming about that."

At least the interstate and its frontage roads were useful to local residents, he said.

The tolled I-69/TTC, he said, would be a barrier for school buses, as well as the San Felipe-Frydek Volunteer Fire Department, which serves both communities. Although Frydek residents now get water from wells, Dane Rudloff said the corridor could prevent lines from being extended there from Sealy someday.

It also would weaken social ties, Dennis Mlcak said. Although both families live outside the study area, a little cluster of buildings that includes two gathering places â€” St. Mary's Catholic Church and Emil Ermis' store â€” is well inside its boundaries.

"The bottom line is that no matter where it goes, it's going to have the same effect on the communities," said Dennis Mlcak, "and once that's severed, it's gone forever." ...
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/tomball/news/5734873.html

This is shaping up to be a huge emminent domain debacle.

Bernard, Apr 29, 2008 IP

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aren't there already roads going from mexico, through america and up to canada? so what's the big deal?

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Do some research - the TTC will not have on/off ramps for local access. They will use eminent domain laws to appropriate a huge swaths of land for it too.

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It's a transcontinental super highway, It's not for locals. There are already roads for locals to use.

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stOx said: ↑

It's a transcontinental super highway, It's not for locals. There are already roads for locals to use.
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The state doesn't have the authority to build a transcontinental highway. and federally, they refuse to acknowledge that such a thing is in the plans.

One really needs to get into the nuts and bolts of the TTC to understand it. It's not just eminent domain that is the issue. It's going to be built by taking public land, and giving it to foreign corporations.

I am all for road privatization, but the government has no right to take away property from citizens and allocate it to big business. That creates a dangerous paradigm. It's state induced corporatism or "fascism".

guerilla, Apr 30, 2008 IP

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Trans Texas Corridor (precusor to the NAFTA super highway)

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