Eisenhower would be happy! The Texas Department of Transportation made a U-turn and announced that it is ditching earlier plans for a new route right through the heart of Texas for the I-69 leg of the Trans Texas Corridor. Instead, TxDot is now recommending the existing Highway 59 route. This is what citizens and tax payers have been saying.

TxDot received about 28,000 comments during the public comment period . . . probably all 28,000 were against the plan to develop a new route. Now, TxDot has said it will utilize existing highway facilities. This message was communicated to the Federal Highway Administration in a letter dated 9, 2008.

Now, if TxDot and the Federal Highway Administration will listen to the people and not give the highway construction and ownership rights to Spanish corporation, Cintra, that will be even better. Eisenhower would never believe that our great country cannot afford to construct its own highways.

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