The following article consists only of excerpts from "Trans Texas Corridor finally dead? Well, mostly dead" written by Terri Hall, Founder of, "Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom". It is an interesting article from the perspective of the true nature of politics.
Trans Texas Corridor finally dead? Well, mostly dead
The people of Texas scored a big victory with the recent repeal of the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) from state statute. The Trans Texas Corridor (re-named the "Innovative Connectivity Plan" in 2009) was also called the biggest land grab in Texas history and was always been about exploiting landowners and taxpayers to open up new trade corridors to facilitate the free flow of goods (mostly cheap goods from China) among nations to benefit global corporations. It was going to gobble up 580,000 acres of private Texas land (the first corridor alone was to displace 1 million Texans) and hand it over to some global player who would have exclusive rights to determine the route and hotels, restaurants, and gas stations along the corridor starting at the southern border of Texas and going all the way to Port Huron, Michigan.
The Trans Texas Corridor as originally envisioned was a 4,000 mile multi-modal network of toll roads (auto and truck lanes), rail lines (freight rail and commuter rail), power transmission lines, pipelines, telecommunications lines, you name it, it was part of the Trans Texas Corridor, a terrorist's dream. It was going to be financed, operated, and controlled by a foreign company using public private partnerships in swaths of land 1,200 feet (4 football fields) wide.
The Trans Texas Corridor first became one of the most radioactive political hot potatoes across the state (and nation) and the backlash wasn't isolated to just Central Texas.
Governor Rick Perry even signed the repeal. That ought to give us pause. The TTC is Perry's legacy building project, one he still defends despite the massive grassroots uprising against it. So why would he sign the repeal? Because it's not truly dead.
