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The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is a toll road to run north-and-south through Texas to be operated exclusively for at least 50 years by a Spanish company, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A.
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The '''Trans-Texas Corridor''' ('''TTC''') was a [[toll road]] to run north-and-south through [[Texas]]. The state announced in January, 2009, it would not be built; critics called it a boondoggle and a threat to American nationalism.
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[[File:Trans-texas.jpg|thumb|150px]]
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Construction is planned to begin later this year.  This highway would bisect Texas from Oklahoma to its border with Mexico with a 10-lane limited-access road to parallel Interstate 35. It would have three lanes each way for passenger cars, two express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for people and freight, plus a utility corridor for oil and natural gas pipelines, electric towers, cables for communication, and telephone lines.
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==Plans==
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This highway would bisect [[Texas]] from [[Oklahoma]] to its border with [[Mexico]] with a 10-lane limited-access road to parallel Interstate 35. It would have three lanes each way for passenger cars, two express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for people and freight, plus a utility corridor for oil and natural gas pipelines, electric towers, cables for communication, and telephone lines.
  
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This project requires taking o84,000 acres of farm and ranch land at an estimated cost of $11 billion to $30 billion - property then lost from the tax rolls of counties and school districts.
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This project would take 584,000 acres of farm and ranch land at an estimated cost of $11 billion to $30 billion - property then lost from the tax rolls of counties and school districts.
  
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The Trans-Texas Corridor will be the first leg of what has been dubbed the NAFTA Super Highway to go through heartland America all the way to Canada. This would be a major lifeline of the plan to merge the United States into a North American Community.
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The Trans-Texas Corridor will be the first leg of what has been dubbed the NAFTA Super Highway to go all the way to Canada. Critics said it would allow the United States to merge into a North American economy.
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In 2011, the Texas Legislature passed HB 1201 to formally cancel the Trans-Texas Corridor.<ref>http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=82R&Bill=HB1201</ref>
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==Further reading==
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* [http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/01/07/01072009wacttc.html# Tim Woods, "State officials scrap Trans-Texas Corridor," ''Waco Tribune-Herald'' Jan. 07, 2009]
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* [https://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/010609dnmetttc.43c00ac6.html Michael A. Lindenberger, "Trans Texas Corridor Is Dead, Txdot Says," ''The Dallas Morning News,'' Jan. 6, 2009]
  
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Plans include allowing the Kansas City Southern de Mexico Railroad to bring Chinese goods in sealed cargo containers from the southern Mexican port of Lazaro Cardinas direct to Kansas City, Mo.  Mexican trucks will be able to drive more sealed containers up the fast lanes of the NAFTA Super Highway, inspected only electronically if at all, and making their first customs stop in Kansas City.
 
  
 
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[http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf  Council on Foreign Relations proposal for a North American Union].
 
[http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf  Council on Foreign Relations proposal for a North American Union].
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==References==
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Latest revision as of 23:16, April 9, 2019

The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) was a toll road to run north-and-south through Texas. The state announced in January, 2009, it would not be built; critics called it a boondoggle and a threat to American nationalism.

Trans-texas.jpg

Plans

This highway would bisect Texas from Oklahoma to its border with Mexico with a 10-lane limited-access road to parallel Interstate 35. It would have three lanes each way for passenger cars, two express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for people and freight, plus a utility corridor for oil and natural gas pipelines, electric towers, cables for communication, and telephone lines.

This project would take 584,000 acres of farm and ranch land at an estimated cost of $11 billion to $30 billion - property then lost from the tax rolls of counties and school districts.

The Trans-Texas Corridor will be the first leg of what has been dubbed the NAFTA Super Highway to go all the way to Canada. Critics said it would allow the United States to merge into a North American economy.

In 2011, the Texas Legislature passed HB 1201 to formally cancel the Trans-Texas Corridor.[1]

Further reading


Additional Sources

Council on Foreign Relations proposal for a North American Union.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=82R&Bill=HB1201
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