and as Lou Dobbs said, there has been extensive media coverage here in the middle of the country and in Texas.
I can't stand Lou Dobbs but the super highway IS a reality. The county commission where I live just approved a giant intermodal port.
So yes, it is a fact that a NAFTA superhighway is indeed being planned.
Despite these declines in overall figures, trade using surface transportation, including rail, truck, and pipeline, between the US and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico is growing, valued at $65.0 billion in April 2007. This is 5.3 percent higher than in April 2006 and marks the biggest percentage increase from the same month of the previous year since August 2006, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Such figures indicate the importance of strong international trade in mitigating the sluggish trends of domestic activity and further validate the new Kansas City intermodal ports, which are very well positioned to serve international trade between America and its NAFTA partners. In June 2007, Kansas City transferred ownership of more than half the former Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base near Belton to Chicago-based developer Center Point Realty Services Corp. The company will spend $250 million or more in coming years to redevelop the site as an intermodal rail and trucking port serving the Midwest and markets in Canada and Mexico. After demolition of the airport runway and about half the site’s 40 or so buildings in the second half of 2007, the first tenants will move in as early as spring 2008. This is just one of three new intermodal developments coming online in the Kansas City area, along with Trammell Crow’s development at Kansas City International Airport and the upcoming logistics hub by Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad and the Allen Group in Gardner, Kansas. Kansas City’s new intermodal ports will capitalize on Canadian and Mexican trade that continues to flourish despite the overall downward trend.http://www.kcsmartport.com/sec_news/trans_outlook/outlook_current.htmThe U.S. government is not planning a NAFTA Super Highway. The U.S. government does not have the authority to designate any highway as a NAFTA Super Highway, nor has it sought such authority, nor is it planning to seek such authority.
There are private and state level interests planning highway projects which they themselves describe as "NAFTA Corridors," but these are not Federally-driven initiatives, and they are not a part of the SPP.
http://www.spp.gov/myths_vs_facts.asphttp://www.nascogto.com/http://www.gardnerkansas.gov/go/intermodal_RailOperation_q_a.phphttp://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/04/07/story12.html