Talk:Trans-Texas Corridor

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[edit] photo of what?

Construction for TTC-35 will likely not begin before 2010; I'm not sure about TTC-69 but it's probably similar. TTC-35 alignment-specific "tier two" planning can't even begin until the process for selecting a general route (4-10 mile wide possible alignment path) is complete, which will be late 2007. I suppose when a photo for SH 130 shows up, it could be captioned as roughly like, "Although the width of its right-of-way is only half that of the planned TTC-35, SH 130, shown here, is expected to be the TTC-35 segment through the Austin area." What might be more useful, however, would be a map of Texas showing the preferred routes, nonphotoness notwithstanding. Deh 12:20, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


Re: the fact that all of the proposed highways lead to Mexico:

Has anyone asked "WHY are we doing this?"

The answer would be NAFTA, the truck traffic along I-35 has risen dramatically. --Holderca1 14:32, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Required land

Since the entire Trans-Texas Corridor will be approximately 4000 miles long and the widest portion of any corridor will 1200 feet (slightly less than 1/4 mile) why is the required land nine times as much as the total area of all the corridors?

I don't know, looking back, the creator of the article put that in there and I can't find any source to back it up. On another note, the priority corridors add up to 4,000 miles, the total of all of the corridors is about 8,000 miles. --Holderca1 21:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
The plans for the TTC are to avoid traffic by avoiding major cities; thereby making the corridor an autobahn of sorts. The land estimates might be being blown-up in the mind due to this.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.206.81.99 (talk) 16:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Moved rant from article

There are gross inaccuracies in official statements about the TTC. The first section above states a "1200 foot" wide corridor. Gov. Perry's web site, Priorities - Contention/Reality, states "roughly twice the width of the interstate highway". The Trans Texas Corridor web site, KeepTexasMoving, states in their RAC 1, that "the corridor has a centerline length of approximately 506 miles and an area of approximately 4983 square miles", that is an average width of 9.85 miles. The web site goes on to say, in direct contradiction to the 1200 foot width stated above and the Governor's estimate, that "the corridor proceeds south as a 4 mile wide corridor centered on I 35 just north of Denton, Texas. Here it becomes a ten mile wide corridor...." With inaccuracies of this magnitude, how much faith can be put in the veracity of the other statements made by the proponents of the project.<!- - [1] [2] - -> Original complaints from: User:Wbthomasiii 18:32, 18 January 2007.

The study area will be 10 miles wide,[3] not the road or required ROW. This is actually a fairly standard width for a study area of a long-distance interstate and not out of the ordinary. For example, two possible routes originally considered (decades ago) for Interstate 10 east of Houston were the current alignment through Beaumont and a routing along Texas State Highway 73 to Port Arthur. These routes are more like 15 miles are apart[4] between Beaumont and Port Arthur, yet the interstate ROW in this area is at most 300 ft. wide.[5] Ufwuct 17:14, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Misleading?

Additionally the system will require about 9,000 square miles (23,300 km²) of land to be purchased or acquired through the state's assertion of eminent domain. Environmentalists are concerned about the effects of such wide corridors, and private land owners have expressed disgust at the idea that their land may be seized and in turn be sold in exclusive agreements to other developers in order to help pay for the transit links.

Parts of this section sounds to me like a beat up by those opposed to the concept with limited basis in fact. Is it really possible in US or Texan law and has there really been any suggestion that land is going to be purchased via eminent domain and then sold for a profit to developers for redevelopment in whatever way they see fit to finance the project? This is what the above seems to suggest to me. I would have thought land could only be acquired to be used for the corridor and therefore there is no profit going on here. Also siezed hardly seems NPOV to me. Unless I'm mistaken the land will still be bought, even though the agreement of the owner need not be obtained. Siezed suggest no due compensation will be paid ala Mugabe. Something like acquired as we already use is sufficient. Nil Einne 19:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)