Trans-Texas Corridor Rears Its Ugly Head Again

A group calling itself the North America's SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) is meeting in Fort Worth this weekend for its annual meeting. This group wants to build a super-highway from Mexico to Canada. They try to make their goals seem innocuous enough. To hear them talk, you'd think all they wanted was to help business along the I-35 corridor.

And they've created a strawman to knock down so they can convince us that they're just trying to help. They say that the folks who don't understand them think they're trying to merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico into one giant North American country. Then they proceed to knock this strawman down by telling us they just want to prevent gridlock on I-35.

There may be some conspiracy theorists who believe they want to merge the three countries, but that is not the big threat we face. In case you don't recognize it, Texas' part of the "super-highway" is commonly called the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC), and there are plenty of reasons to oppose it without believing in conspiracy theories.

Some may have thought the legislature had killed this nightmare, but that is just not true. They just didn't want to make waves while the legislature was in session. But the legislature has now adjourned, and the ugly beast can now rise again.

This is the same TTC that would create a giant toll-road across Texas, gobbling up million of acres of agricultural land. Even worse, it would be owned by a giant foreign corporation for the next 50 years, which would suck Texas dry with their exorbitant tolls.

Ordinary Texans have already told the politicians they do not want the TTC, but our governor and his cronies won't stop it because there's just too much money to be made and they plan to get their share.

Speak up Texans, and stop this monster now! Don't let the governor sell us out to the corporations. Speak up now, or spend the next 50 years wishing you had.