DAILY DIALECTIC
October 08, 2009

"It faced problems from the very beginning, but in the end the Trans-Texas Corridor proved no match for lawmakers and state residents who opposed the plan that they said infringed on property rights and was a project few wanted. Gov. Rick Perry's Trans-Texas Corridor was going to be a toll road network — primarily running alongside I-35 between Gainesville and Laredo — designed to ease congestion and would have also included rights-of-way for rail and utilities. In Central Texas, the corridor would have taken advantage of the new State Highway 130 toll road. But The Texas Department of Transportation quickly ran into problems with the plan, from the associated costs to anger over a foreign company being selected to build it..."

TxDOT: Trans-Texas Corridor is Dead...