North American SuperCorridor Coalition
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The North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing an international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor, which it expects to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.
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[edit] Scope
NASCO encompasses Interstate Highways I-35, I-29 and I-94, and the significant east/west connectors to those highways in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. For years people have referred to I-35 (the NASCO Corridor) as the NAFTA Superhighway. As such, it is already built but the goal is to expand it.
[edit] Border Crossings
The project includes the largest border crossing in North America: The Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, the second largest border crossing: Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, the Ports of Manzanillo, Colima and Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, and goes as far north as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
[edit] Affiliations
NASCO now includes the former North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, a non profit organization in Mexico dedicated to economic development and improving trade relations through the heartland of the United States to Canada and Mexico. Both organizations intend to operate as one organization under the name NASCO, sharing both missions and objectives. Membership includes public and private sector entities along the corridor in all three participating countries. The Texas Dept. of Transportation is a member of NASCO. NASCO is working with them to build the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC).
[edit] Funding
NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) for the development of a technology and tracking tools. NASCO hopes the deployment of a modern information system will reduce the cost, improve the efficiency, reduce trade-related congestion, and enhance security of cross-border and corridor information, trade, and traffic. According to the NASCO website, the Federal Government has funded more than $234 million [1] towards the NASCO Corridor since 1999.
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