http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/1310356.htmlAs envisioned by Governor Rick Perry, the Trans-Texas Corridor project would be a
four thousand mile transportation network.
Its awesome $175 billion cost over fifty years would be financed
mostly -- if not entirely -- by private money. The builders would
then charge motorists tolls.
But these wouldn't be mere highways. Proving anew that everything's big in
Texas, they would be megahighways. Corridors up to a quarter-mile wide would
accommodate as many as six lanes for cars and four for trucks, plus railroad
tracks, oil and gas pipelines, water and other utility lines -- even broadband
transmission cables.
Supporters say the corridors are needed to handle the expected
NAFTA-driven boom in the flow of goods to and from Mexico. They
would also allow freight haulers to bypass heavily populated urban
centers on straight-shot highways cutting across the countryside.