Jake!
01-09-2008, 08:34 PM
This was published in today's Des Moines (Iowa) Register:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080109/OPINION04/801090344/1038
January 9, 2008
There's more to the superhighway story
Tiffany Melvin, executive director, North American SuperCorridor Coalition Inc. (NASCO), was rather emphatic saying, "NASCO can state unequivocally that plans for a new giant NAFTA superhighway do not exist" (Dec. 18 letter).
Why, then, has a Spanish company, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte S.A., paid $1.3 million to the Texas Department of Transportation for a 50-year lease to operate a 10-lane toll road through the heart of Texas?
This Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) construction that could start next year includes plans for six lanes for automobile traffic, four lanes for trucks, rail lines both ways for passenger and freight and a utility corridor. This doesn't sound like I-35.
Why, then, has the Kansas City Southern Railroad acquired ownership and/or control of a rail artery from Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, to Kansas City?
Why has the Oklahoma Legislature blocked HB1917, which would have pre-authorized TTC through Oklahoma? NASCO was a major lobby promoting the bill. Why are people in Oklahoma attempting to withdraw state membership from NASCO?
NASCO is a nonprofit business organization whose mission statement includes building an "international, integrated and secure multimodal transportation system" from Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, through Kansas City and on to Winnipeg, Canada. This doesn't sound like I-35.
There is a lot more to this story. Melvin is at best being very disingenuous.
- Albert J. Reynolds,
Des Moines.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080109/OPINION04/801090344/1038
January 9, 2008
There's more to the superhighway story
Tiffany Melvin, executive director, North American SuperCorridor Coalition Inc. (NASCO), was rather emphatic saying, "NASCO can state unequivocally that plans for a new giant NAFTA superhighway do not exist" (Dec. 18 letter).
Why, then, has a Spanish company, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte S.A., paid $1.3 million to the Texas Department of Transportation for a 50-year lease to operate a 10-lane toll road through the heart of Texas?
This Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) construction that could start next year includes plans for six lanes for automobile traffic, four lanes for trucks, rail lines both ways for passenger and freight and a utility corridor. This doesn't sound like I-35.
Why, then, has the Kansas City Southern Railroad acquired ownership and/or control of a rail artery from Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, to Kansas City?
Why has the Oklahoma Legislature blocked HB1917, which would have pre-authorized TTC through Oklahoma? NASCO was a major lobby promoting the bill. Why are people in Oklahoma attempting to withdraw state membership from NASCO?
NASCO is a nonprofit business organization whose mission statement includes building an "international, integrated and secure multimodal transportation system" from Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, through Kansas City and on to Winnipeg, Canada. This doesn't sound like I-35.
There is a lot more to this story. Melvin is at best being very disingenuous.
- Albert J. Reynolds,
Des Moines.