Blogcritics Comments on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Comment by Rachel on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:19:51 EDT

Have you checked out the Trans Texas Corridor info on the TxDot website lately?

Comment by Dave Nalle on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:28:19 EDT

Without the Trans Texas Corridor the so-called "NAFTA Super Highway" is just dead. And the TTC is dead as a doornail. It has not only failed to get approval or funding, but the Texas State Legislator has passed some new regulations which forbid the creation of such a road altogether. The alternative plan is to improve I-35 to accomodate more traffic and leave it at that - which was a reasonable alternative from the very beginning. Dave

Comment by Rachel on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:02:11 EDT

There is a Nafta Superhighway - they just don't call it that. Just do a search for the map of the "proposed" (already a done deal as far as government approval) I-69. It will go from Canada through MI, IN, KY, AR, LA, TX, into Mexico. It will come right through the town I live in in Indiana just a few hundred yards behind my house. Apparently the only people who know about it are the those in the states where we are being forced to pay for it. I'm not a hugh fan of Dobbs or Beck, but they are correct about this one.

Comment by buzzkiller on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:08:45 EST

This article is long and gets dry, but this reporter goes to great lenths to put the nail in this myth's coffin. If you're the type to believe that 9/11 was caused by the US government, don't bother reading it. You're obviously not bound by logic.

Comment by moonraven on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:15:28 EST

Tell us about Plan Colombia--er, Mexico. Apparently it's dead as a doornail, as it should be.

Comment by Dave Nalle on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:27:51 EST

The reason foreign management companies get involved with these projects and with toll roads is that they have the experience and make the low bids. Toll road management and high-speed rail appear to be areas where foreign companies are particularly competitive and where there are few US challengers. Dave

Comment by lono on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:29:37 EST

So, I think we can all see the concerns here. The next report will come from someone claiming that they are standing on the actual super secret superhighway. So, is it real or not? From my research (which is just internet surfacing from Denver, not exactly knocking down the door of city hall) it seems this plan is still in the planning stages, and probably won't take off this decade. Something of this magnitude does seem inevitable. the thing is this, we can't let foreign or corporate interests build it.

Comment by Dave Nalle on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:42:41 EST

Wait a sec. I live only a few miles from where the TTC is supposed to be built, and although the Governor is still pushing the project, there's no question that it is NOT being built. The right of way hasn't been acquired, the money isn't there, and no construction is taking place. It's still a real threat, but it hasn't been started yet. It also doesn't hook into any nationwide system. The adjoining states which were supposed to be involved in expanding the system farther have shown little or no interest in participating. Dave

Comment by cof on The NAFTA Superhighway: Fact or Fiction?

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:55:40 EST

You're mistaken. The Trans Texas Corridor, which is only one leg of the NASCO supercorridor which will run, according to their website, from western Mexico up to Canada, is in process of being built. Texas plans to start taking valuable farm land from those in the path, and the TxDOT people are the ones that have said it could be up to 10 miles wide. (I attended a number of TTC meetings two summers ago that TxDOT put on for citizen comments and have their presentation recorded. You can see a bunch of them, including the TxDOT presentation here) Some of the other stuff you say in your blurb *is* baloney, like Walmart being the only vendor. The truth of the matter, at least for Texas, is that people's property is going to be taken for the benefit of a private corporation, Cintra, which will lease out the road as a toll road, and effectively cut Texas in half. The TTC isn't only around I35 but also I59 which runs through eastern Texas. and there is a Ports to Plains leg that runs around Lubbock. The real question is, do you think that Private-Public partnerships should be supplanting taxes for highways and toll roads should be the norm? USDOT would like to turn federal highways into toll roads; in our state, Kay Bailey Hutchison is against that and voted against it recently, on the basis of it being double taxation. Me? I'm an egalitarian. I believe that's one thing government should be doing, using our taxes for infrastructure, where ALL can ride on the roads, not just those who can afford the tolls.