SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - Thank you Governor Perry

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie (Post 1825498)

In Rick Perry's mind, nothing is more important than his ego. Never forget that.

Were ya'll aware that Rick Perry was also one of the few supporters of the Super highway to have been built from Mexico to Canada.

I'm glad he lost with that kind of smarts :yep:

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Posted: Nov 05, 2011

http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2011/08/12/rick_perrys_nafta_superhighway_problem

Move over Mitt Romney. Rick Perry has a bigger problem to defend from his tenure as governor. Remember the NAFTA Superhighway project? It was to consist of a two-mile wide $184 billion transit system of toll roads, rail lines and utilities from the Texas-Mexico border all the way up to the Minnesota-Canadian border, to make it easier to ship foreign goods from China and other countries into North America. It became so unpopular in Texas that the Texas portion of it, called the Trans-Texas Corridor, was renamed and mostly disbanded a couple of years ago. Perry was the only gubernatorial candidate in 2006 of four major candidates who supported it. Even the Democratic candidate opposed it.
Perry’s campaign website lists the Trans-Texas Corridor as one of his accomplishments, “Rather than taking decades to expand these important corridors a little bit at a time, Governor Perry developed the Trans-Texas Corridor plan.”But is it something Perry really wants broadcast as an achievement? The Texas Republican Party’s 2010 platform includes a plank specifically opposing the Trans-Texas Corridor. Some of the opposition to the NAFTA Superhighway has been dismissed as conspiratorial, but loud objections also came from people concerned with border security and one million rural interests and farmers that stood to lose their land to eminent domain.

Seven years ago

Posted: 5:16 PM Dec 29, 2004

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/1310356.html

It sounds like another tall tale told by a Texan -- the Lone Star State has embarked on a project to build superhighways so big, so complex, they'll make ordinary interstates look like cowpaths.
As envisioned by Governor Rick Perry, the Trans-Texas Corridor project would be a four thousand mile transportation network.
It’s awesome $175 billion cost over fifty years would be financed
mostly -- if not entirely -- by private money. The builders would
then charge motorists tolls.
But these wouldn't be mere highways. Proving anew that everything's big in Texas, they would be megahighways. Corridors up to a quarter-mile wide would accommodate as many as six lanes for cars and four for trucks, plus railroad tracks, oil and gas pipelines, water and other utility lines -- even broadband transmission cables.
Supporters say the corridors are needed to handle the expected
NAFTA-driven boom in the flow of goods to and from Mexico. They
would also allow freight haulers to bypass heavily populated urban
centers on straight-shot highways cutting across the countryside.
But some critics call it a Texas-size boondoggle. Environmentalists worry about its effect on the countryside.
Ranchers and farmers who stand to lose their land through eminent
domain are mobilizing against it. Small towns and big cities alike
fear a loss of business when traffic bypasses them.
Even the governor's own party opposes the plan. The Republican
Party platform drafted at last summer's state convention rejected
it because of its effect on property rights.
But Perry is undeterred. Earlier this month, the Texas Transportation Commission opened negotiations with the Spain-based consortium Cintra to start the first phase of the project. That's a seven-and-a-half billion-dollar, 800 mile corridor from Oklahoma to Mexico.
For the Oklahoma-Mexico corridor, Cintra plans to spend six billion dollars for about 300 miles of four-lane highway from Dallas to San Antonio. It'll also give the state one-point-two billion dollars for improvements along the route. In return, Cintra wants to maintain and operate the toll road for 50 years.