Perry's Trans Texas Corridor Catastrophe.

Boondoggle costs Texans most while politicians corporate friends profit.

"...concentrating on the four primary routes first,
is the beginning of generating the cash flow..."
- Texas Transportation Commissioner Ric Williamson,
appointed by Gov. Rick Perry to govern TxDOT

"Because there are issues of confiscation of private land, State and
National sovereignty and other similar concerns, the Party urges the repeal of
HB 3588 authorizing the Trans-Texas Corridor. Further, we urge the removal of
all authorization and powers granted the Texas Transportation Commission
and the Texas Department of Transportation for the construction and
operation of the Trans-Texas Corridor."
- Republican Party of Texas Platform says "NO" to Corridor.

"Governor Perry and his friends spent a great deal
of time researching ideas to create more revenue."
- Texas Transportation Commissioner Ric Williamson,
appointed by Gov. Rick Perryto govern TxDOT

The singular focus of the Corridor plan is to generate revenue. It intentionally bypasses urban centers. Those metropolitan areas are left to deal with their own traffic and mobility problems, including access to the Corridor. Perry's plan allows private land to be taken away from its current owner to lease it for commercial, industrial or agricultural purpose.

With only 5,000 miles of toll roads in the United States today, The Trans Texas Corridor is a 4,000 mile plan of supertollways and more. The Corridor will include tollways for 12 passenger vehicles lanes, 4 truck lanes, 2 passenger train tracks, 2 commuters train tracks, 2 freight train tracks, underground lines for water, natural gas, petroleum, telecommunication, fiberoptics and overhead high-voltage electric transmission lines and electrical transmission towers.

Plans also include gas stations, garages, restaurants, hotels, stores, billboards, warehouses, freight interchange, intermodal transfer areas, passenger train stations, bus stations, parking facilities, dispatch control centers, maintenance facilities, pipeline pumping stations, and of course, toll booths. The Trans Texas Corridor is the largest engineering project ever proposed for Texas. This statewide network of corridors will measure a quarter mile wide and cost over $180 Billion dollars.

"Local citizens would suffer the negative impact of
such a corridor without receiving any benefit"
- Diane Lacy, Jeff Davis County Commissioner

"It's going to kill agriculture.
Depending on where it goes, that is part of my family's land."
- Richard Cortese, Bell County Commissioner

"This would waste AG lands, and the access
and egress issues are of real concern,"
- Judge Jerry Bearden, Mason County

"If there is no access to the small towns,
it will change the face of the state."
- Will Lowrance, Hillsboro Mayor

"I am concerned about what this could do to the county."
- Richard Cortese, Bell County Commissioner

"If it is done the way it's proposed, it will hurt us..."
- Carlos Vigil, Cooke County Community Development Director

"With a right-of-way approximately 1,200-feet-wide, the proposed
corridor could change the face of agriculture in Texas forever as it
swallows up thousands of production acres of farmland."
- Juliet Briskin, Country World News

"It's a terrifying nightmare. I'm scared to death of this."
- Bill Durst, Fayette County Inspector

"The government is out of control.
They're trying to take our property rights away from us,"
- Rep. Harvey Hilderbran

"Texas should not be sold out to foreign interests.
Texas farms and ranches should be for Texas farmers and ranchers.
We should not let a Europeans consortium take our Texas birthright.
Our elected leaders should not be asking us to give them our land and
then insist we should have to pay to drive across it (as toll roads.)"
- Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn.