Texans get their back up over the neo con's super highway

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/us/10texas.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=us&adxnnlx=1202621164-Ah+jZ/Wb1aYEeFq6GbCLIQ&oref=slogin


Proposal in Texas for a Public-Private Toll Road System Raises an Outcry


Leon Little’s farm here near Corpus Christi would not be seized for Texas’s proposed $184-billion-plus superhighway project for 5 or 10 years, if ever.

But Mr. Little was alarmed enough to show up Wednesday night with hundreds of his South Texas coastal neighbors to do what the Texas Department of Transportation has been urging: “Go ahead, don’t hold back.”

Don’t worry. Texans have gotten the message, swamping hearings and town meetings across the state to grill and often excoriate agency officials about a colossal traffic makeover known as the Trans-Texas Corridor, a public-private partnership unrivaled in the state’s — or probably any state’s — history, that would stretch well into the century and, if completed in full, end up costing around $200 billion.

“Is your road more important than the foodstuffs we put together for you?” asked Mr. Little, glaring at transportation officials at the town meeting.
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the landowners will lose this one - the neo cons always win

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1. We're not real thrilled about it here in Kansas City either.

And we have been designated to be the "hub" for this misadventure -- the misadventure known as the Mexico to Canada superhighway.

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2. the hub is supposed to be huge. lot of land to claim

anybody complaining?

[protect our future]

3. Yes, enough complaining to make the proponents

shift and squirm. The project is kept quietly under wraps here and many are led to believe it is only a myth, with no substance in reality. For those who do understand, there is already much opposition.