Update on the TTC

I am sure there are threads in here on the topic but couldn't find one in a reasonable amount of time so am starting a new one.  I found this article that is well worth the read:

Trans-Texas Corridor: Can this possibly be stopped?

September 1, 2007
Joshua Herring
RenewAmerica analyst

Perhaps it isn't going to be as easy for big government and big business magnates to abusively strip Americans of their homes, their businesses, and their property as they originally thought it would be following the latest Supreme Court ruling on eminent domain. In an analysis published by RenewAmerica not long ago titled "A three pronged attack to bring down America," I dealt to some extent with the Free Trade Agreements NAFTA and CAFTA, and I outlined some of the potential threats involved.

One of the things I touched on is what has been called "North America's SuperCorridor." This is a byproduct of NAFTA that is to be a highway four hundred yards wide. Actually, there are plans in the works that will link another stretch of highway to this "SuperCorridor" that is to run up from Panama to facilitate plans being made for the sake of CAFTA as well, but I lack both the time and the room get into all that here.

Bigger is not always better

At any rate, as I said before, this "SuperCorridor" is to run through several Mexican states and then through Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario. When I saw a map drawn to scale of this highway, in all its width and immensity, with all the necessary connecting links that are planned for Texas to go where they need it to, I was awestruck. The average American citizen has no idea how much turf the Texas Department of Transportation and global enterprises will have to chew up to facilitate their plans.

As one begins to look into this matter, it quickly becomes obvious that the good of the American people cannot possibly be served by swallowing up the nation the way they plan to with this highway. And this is only one of many devastating aspects of the overall objective. The economic plans that are in the works will swallow the American economy the way the SuperCorridor will swallow up the turf. In fact, although many Americans aren't seeing what is going down for what it really is just yet, our economy is already half chewed and digested by men of global power and prestige — both within and outside of national governments — as a result of their insatiable appetite for even more money and power than they already have.

What is at the root of all this?

The remainder of the article can be found at: http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/herring/070901

I suspect that one of the drivers for this is completely unrelated to NAFTA/CAFTA/etc.  It is the ability of those in the know (i.e. scheming politicians) to buy cheap and sell dear the land around the TTC to make a healthy little profit that makes Hillary's cattle futures look like monopoly money.  It is unfortunate that we have elected politicians of such low integrity and simultaneously given them so much power over our lives.  And this is at the local level... it only gets worse as you go up the food chain and look at national politicians.

NAFTA and CAFTA need to be redone.  These treaty agreements have never been in the best interest of the USofA.

Not mentioned in the above article is the fact that NASCO is owned by a company in Spain.  The highway will be owned by a foreign company.  They are supposed to build it, maintain it and collect tolls on it, but I will bet a dollar to a donut hole that much of our tax dollars will go toward it.