My Mom always told me if it smells rotten it probably is rotten. Mom always gave good advice and I think Texans know that the Trans-Texas Corridor smells rotten. In March 2008, a Spanish corporation, Cintra, received funding approval to construct the Trans-Texas Corridor “super highway”. When I read about the Trans-Texas Corridor it smells very rotten!
First, why does Texas need to sell out to a foreign corporation to construct a highway in the state? That’s easy! Because the Governor and the Department of Transportation knew that the citizens would never approve tax dollars for a highway that no one wants!
Second, why does the U.S. Department of Transportation assist the state? The U.S. Department of Transportation, with Secretary Mary Peters at the helm, has deliberately disregarded the vote and instructions of the Congress and Senate in 2007 to discontinue the Mexican Trucking Program and continues today to operate the Mexican Trucking Program in Texas. The Trans-Texas Corridor is a plan to provide a “super highway” from Mexico into the heartland of the U.S.
On March 11, 2008, the Senate Transportation Committee conducted a Oversight Hearing of the Cross Border Trucking Program. Mary Peters was asked why she continued with the Mexican Trucking Program in defiance of the the wishes of the citizens of the United States as demonstrated by the vote of the Congress and Senate to cancel all budget appropriations for this project. Senator Frank Lautenberg is on this committee.
The Trans-Texas Corridor is not in the best interest of the people of the State of Texas. It was masterminded by the some of the same parties that also wanted to sell U.S. shipping ports. Also, isn’t it odd, that the Texas Department of Transportation put on a series of intensely advertised “public hearings” to answer questions AFTER it was already put in place!
Hurry - write your State Senator and Legislators and tell them to stop the TTC. Don’t bother to write Governor Rick Perry, he is the chief orchestrator of the ill conceived project.
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