TURF Newsletter – January 30, 2014

Trans Texas Corridor back… AGAIN


TxDOT Study maps look eerily similar to TTC

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TxDOT is hosting public meetings along the I-35 corridor to solicit public feedback on its Texas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study. Their documents show a map of a passenger rail in the I-35 corridor from Brownsville, McAllen, and Laredo, Texas, up into Oklahoma — just like the original Trans Texas Corridor!

If you can attend any of the meetings (see remaining schedule below). Please do so.

30 SECOND ACTION ITEM

Please submit public comments opposing any passenger rail throughout our state. The eminent domain and lack of proven feasibility of any these projects is grounds enough to nix it. But the possibility remains that it could fall into the hands of a foreign corporation. Both China and Japan are possible players in bringing passenger rail to Texas.

So tell them you want the ‘No Build’ option!