The NASCO SuperCorridor (Trans Texas Corridor) -NAFTA Highway Plan?

[Vich]

How come there is not more talk about the :

The NAFTA Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.

In Texas, the NAFTA Super Highway is being sold as the Trans Texas Corridor. In simplest terms, the TTC is a superhighway system including tollways for passenger vehicles and trucks; lanes for commercial and freight trucks; tracks for commuter rail and high-speed freight rail; depots for all rail lines; pipelines for oil, water, and natural gas; and electrical towers and cabling for communication and telephone lines. One of the proposed corridor routes, TTC-35, is parallel to the present Interstate Highway 35 (I-35), slightly to the east, running north from Mexico to Canada. Its present scope is 4,000 miles long, 1,200 feet wide, with an estimated cost of $183 billion of taxpayer funds. It runs through Kansas City.

NASCO

Is this a bunch of Propaganda? I cant find any of this on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC etc...

I did a search and came up with nothing.

 

[Mike2002]

http://www.nascocorridor.com/ ?? Some googling found that.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: Mike2002
http://www.nascocorridor.com/ ?? Some googling found that.

 

[FoBoT]

yes, it is some crazy propaganda thing, not sure what the point of spreading a story like that is

try to spark isolationism i suppose

 

[amddude]

It's legit, and it's probably bad.

 

[Vich]

Originally posted by: Mike2002
http://www.nascocorridor.com/ ?? Some googling found that.

Thats the site I linked.

I am talking about news agencies reporting about this.

I will need a backup plan incase this happens. Like get a citizenship in sweden or something. lol

 

[BrownTown]

Well I don't know enough about it to say whether or not its good or bad, but there has been a considerable lack of growth in the critical infrastructure of this country over the past decades that has pretty much led to an overburdening of roads/transmission lines/gas pipelines. The NIMBY contingent and enviromentalists are pretty solidly against these things. However this looks more like a connection across the NAFTA countires and less of an overall growth in US infrastructure so i'm not really sure its a good thing. My worry of course is that we build something like this to encourage more trade, but it doesn't really end up increasng trade much and the new stuff ends up going mostly unused.

EDIT: is this actually a serious thing under consideration by the government or just an advocacy group trying to propose a pie in the sky type thing that won't ever really get consideration?

 

[FoBoT]

i can't be real

too expensive

pointless

and the biggest reason, the first person i heard about it from is a nutjob, wears more tinfoil hats than any respectable "there was no moon landing" nutjob would ever dare to wear, so it can't be real

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Vich

Originally posted by: Mike2002
http://www.nascocorridor.com/ ?? Some googling found that.

Thats the site I linked.

I am talking about news agencies reporting about this.

I will need a backup plan incase this happens. Like get a citizenship in sweden or something. lol

Why?

 

[TheDro]

Just a way for the Gov't to traffic narcotics to undercut the cartels.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: BrownTown


EDIT: is this actually a serious thing under consideration by the government or just an advocacy group trying to propose a pie in the sky type thing that won't ever really get consideration?

it's under construction in texas.

it's rick perry's big push, and was a pretty major issue in the last election (the farmers don't like it, and neither do the democrats, who are opposed to tollroads and stupidly believe roads lead to sprawl, rather than cheap land).

supporters' website

 

[Vich]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: BrownTown


EDIT: is this actually a serious thing under consideration by the government or just an advocacy group trying to propose a pie in the sky type thing that won't ever really get consideration?

it's under construction in texas.

it's rick perry's big push, and was a pretty major issue in the last election (the farmers don't like it, and neither do the democrats, who are opposed to tollroads and stupidly believe roads lead to sprawl, rather than cheap land).

supporters' website

interesting link.

 

[krcat1]

The main reason for this highway is that goods from Asia could bypass the West Coast and move directly into the middle of the US. They are trying to take the advantages that California has in being the main port of entry for trans-Pacific goods and keep them for themselves.

Also, since the ports would be in Mexico, the dock workers and the truckers would be paid much less than those in the US, and the Mexican trucks would be allowed to roll into the US, thus lowering the pay for trucker.