Texas Trans Corridors

[Anonymous]

I noticed in today's newspaper that the Texas Transportation Commission have approved Governor Perry's Texas Trans Corridor. See the Texas Government's web site at http://www. dot.state.tx.us/ttc/ttc_report_full.pdf

It is a vision the orginial interstate highway system should have been based on. A wide stretch of real estate incorporating a 6 lane turnpike for cars, and a separate 4 lane turnpike for trucks, with medians three times as wide as the interstate highway system, leaving room for utility lines, gas and water pipelines, fiber optic lines, and most importantly a double track high speed rail line capable of speeds up to 200 mph, a double track for fast freight, and a double track for slow freight. The 50 year project would cost around $180 billion, with routes paralleling major highways and skirting major cities around 10-20 miles off the current highways. Right of way would be purchased not with cash on hand but through royalties. Environmental impact studies for the first two lines, paralleling I-35 to the east, and paralleling I-45 to the west will be finished by January 2003. Governor Perry will ask for the original feeder funds in the next legislature, and the Texas DOT will have to have legislation allowing them to purchase right of way for other infrastructure needs besides highways. The focus is that the first two lines of the corridors can be built in the next ten years.........

As I have stated before, VISION is so very important!