Why don't you tell them you are selling
their country?
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The Trans-Texas Corridor is the largest engineering
project ever proposed for Texas. The statewide
network of priority corridors will stretch 4,000 miles
and measure up to 1,200 feet wide.
Each segment of the corridor will contain:
* Six 12-foot passenger vehicle lanes (80mph).
* Four 13 foot Truck lanes.
* Two tracks for 200mph high-speed passenger rail.
* Two tracks for commuter passenger rail.
* Two tracks for freight rail.
* 200 ft. utility zone for underground waterlines,
natural gas and petrolium pipelines,
telecommunication cables and overhead high-voltage
electric transmission lines.
Four Priority corridors identified.
*I-35, I-37, and I-69 from Denison to Rio Grande
Valley.
*I-69 from Texarkana to Houston to Loredo.
*I-45 from Dalas-Fort Worth to Houston.
*I-10 from El Paso to Orange.
These Priority corridors account for approximately
half the total 8,000 miles of the Trans-Texas Corridor.
The current corridor plan will require 146 acres of
right away per mile of corridor. The total anticipated
right of way for 4,000 miles of corridor is 584,000
acres.
Estimated total cost of the Trans-Texas Corridor is
$145 billion to $183 billion.
Texas Landowners -
Approximately 580,000 acres (908 sq. miles) of
private land will be taken by the State for the
superhighway, bullet train and any other use that
TxDOT can lease or sell to generate income for
the TTC.
Those directly affected by land takings may find
they can no longer access portions of their
properties divided by the corridor running
through their lands.
There will be no increase to adjacent property
values through any future commercial
developments By design the corridor will have no
access to adjacent property nor will it have
frontage roads.
Local Government -
*New authority granted to TxDOT allows the
taking of city and country owned real property,
parkways, streets, highways alleys, or
reservations and prohibits TxDOT from paying
compensatin for that land. (HB-3588)
*TxDOT may require a government entity to pay
a fee to use any part of the Trans Texas Corridor.
*Citiies across Texas will be devastated by loss
of traveler revenues captured by the state
concessions located on the Corridor.
*Counties and school districts will loose
approximately 146 acres of taxable land every
mile of the Trans Texas Corridor that passes
through their jurisdiction.
Not the United States of America...this much is made
know. Rather the Tran-Texas Corridor will be controlled
by a company from Spain called "CINTRA". This
information was withheld from the public by decision of
Perry and Cintra/Zachery, even though $3.5 million tax
payer dollars is being given to Cintra's partner, Zachery,
for planning.
Even though Attorney General Greg Abbott attempted to
make the documents public in June, 2005. Cintra/Zachry
and the TxDOT filed a lawsuit against the Attorney
General in July, 2005 to keep the documents secret.
Through this deal, Spain/Cintra/Zachry will control 1/2
million acres of the richest farmlands in Texas known as
"The Blacklands."
This is a bad, bad, bad idea, not only for
Texas but the entire United States of
America as well.
1.) An easy terrorist target. 200 foot
utility zone for large underground water
lines, natural gas and petrolium pipelines,
telecommunication cables, fiberoptics and
overhead high-voltage electical transmisison
lines in a quarter mile wide package spells
easy pickings for terrorists.
2.) Private land becomes State land.
The TTC project authorizes the
Commission to take private land from
current owners in record time - to lease it
for any commercial, industrial or agricultural
it sees fit. More then one-half million acres
will rapidly become government peroperty
used to collect State revenue, and squashing
out all private business in it's path.
3.) Money first, transportation second.
The Corridor plan is designed to provide
transportation funds, not necessarily
transportation. They do not and will not
care where it is built or how many families,
farms, and communities are affected
provided it produces income.
4.) Heavy negative economic impact for
Texas cities and towns. Hundreds of
Texas communities will be seeing business
shut down, layoffs, job loss. As State
contract concessions will include food, gas,
hotels, stores and more, and access to any
small towns from the Corridor will be
non-existant.
School districts will lose approximately
580,000 acres from their tax rolls. Local
taxpayers will absorb the differences, as
every mile of the Corridor will take
approximately 146 acres of land off school
districts tax rolls each year.
5.) A State divided. Nearly one-quarter
mile wide corridor will cut through Texas ,
making it diffiult to get from one place to
another, and leaving many landowners
unable to access their own property forcing
them to sell it to the government.
6.) Pollution and environmental hazards.
Don't fix it, just move it seems to be the
approach. As the Corridor generates more
air pollution, this time to the rural areas of
our State, it also threatens wildlife by
hampering the migration of 100% of all
reptile, rodent, amphibian and mammels
populations in Texas.
7.) Open door. Easy access for Mexico &
South American Drug,Weapon, and Human
smuggling cartels as well as paramiliatry
groups to our Nations heartlands.
The dangers and disasters are numberous,
the cost high. Is Spain receiving funding
really worth such a high cost?
