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Comments on TTC Due Wednesday Save Email Print
Posted: 8:32 PM Mar 16, 2008
Last Updated: 8:32 PM Mar 16, 2008
Reporter: Steve Fullhart
Email Address: fullhart@kbtx.com

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The time to get comments about the Trans Texas Corridor on the record in Austin is drawing to a close.

Wednesday is the last day you can go to TxDOT's special TTC website and let state leaders know what you think of the proposed superhighway.

Public hearings across the current study area wrapped up March 4, with stops in Huntsville, Navasota and this public meeting in Bryan.

Overwhelmingly, the comments were against the TTC, especially in Walker and Grimes counties, where hundreds turned out in protest of the multi-billion dollar proposed project.

Click on the link below this story to go to the website where you can leave your comments with TxDOT concerning TTC. You can also catch up with TTC news by clicking on the special section here at KBTX.com.

Under the current, Tier One study that is underway, the corridor would come through Walker and Grimes County on its route, which starts in Texarkana and ends near Laredo.

Brazos County leaders have spoken a some local events asking TxDOT to consider altering its route and bringing it close to Bryan/College Station, which is one of the larger cities in Texas without interstate access.

A decision on whether to proceed with the project as is, alter it or scrap it is likely to come later this year. If they proceed with TTC, TxDOT would conduct a second tier of studies which would last a few years, complete with new environmental studies and public hearings.


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Posted by: Anonymous Location: navasota on Mar 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM
ttc-69 and perry both need to be booted out of state

Posted by: Anonymous Location: BCS on Mar 20, 2008 at 10:58 PM
I'd like to take some of our political officials for a trip in a car on the proposed route for this cocaine expressway. I'm sure they would be afraid to enter Mexico along the proposed route in Mexico. One road block after another with troops that carry machine guns and federal police with machine guns. Mexico does have a army it is used to fight internal narco trafficking criminals and they do fight in hour long gun battles. Just watch the news on telemundo. I've seen this first hand in Mexico along with bodies and blown up cars along the road. This is normal for the highway this is proposed to run to. The US is looking to give the Mexico over 1 billion us dollars to aid in the drug wars in Mexico. Who is going to fund our police to fight them on our new road.

Posted by: john Location: College Station on Mar 20, 2008 at 12:45 PM
It no longer matters whether they listen to us or not; and some of them weren't even there when Ricky pulled the wool over their eyes and got them to authorize this monstrosity without looking at the fine print, and now they don't have enough votes to override his veto, since DFW, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio keep electing people who promise to put all the international traffic into somebody elses (ANYbody elses, actually) neighborhood. The only way to get any changes in this thing is to get rid of Perry, because he's single handedly "holding the gates against the peasants with pitchforks and torches", which is how he regards the rural population of Texas...

Posted by: Grace Location: Singleton on Mar 20, 2008 at 09:42 AM
Right on, Christine! Why aren't our "elected officials" listening to us? This is OUR state and they are supposed to represent US, not themselves. This is all about GREED pure and simple. NO TTC!!!!!

Posted by: Christine Location: College Station on Mar 19, 2008 at 03:25 PM
This will not benefit anyone!!!! My parents (who are in ill health) will lose their home and land that they have worked so incredibly hard for (the state could just take it if they refuse to sell). There will be thousands of others in this same situation. It will bring more drugs and crime into our state and make us an even better target for terrorism. There will be loss of tax revenue for the counties affected. School children will have to ride the buses for longer periods of time due to changes in bus routes and schools will have to pay more for gasoline consumption. There will be greater amounts of pollution. People who live close to the TTC-69 will be at increased risk for exposure to hazardous chemicals. The state should allow a vote on this with specific mention of what the vote is concerning. Instead of "funding for a project by TxDot", the ballot should specifically state the TTC-69 and list the probable routes. I am 100% AGAINST the TTC-69. It is NOT good for the community.

Posted by: Brian Scheiterle Location: Plantersville, Tx on Mar 19, 2008 at 02:15 PM
Waste of time effort and $$$$$$$$$. Scrap it and put our money to work on something that will benifit the majority. not the politicians from under the table drug pay off money.

Posted by: Brian Hammond Location: Plantersville, Tx on Mar 19, 2008 at 02:12 PM
Use our tax dollars for somthing other than supporting drug dealers and smugglers. repair the roads we already have.

Posted by: Kelly Hammond Location: plantersville, Tx. on Mar 19, 2008 at 01:23 PM
Good for drug cartell. Good for politicians on both sides of the boarder. Good for smugglers of all kind. I Say NO

Posted by: Patricia Location: Grimes County on Mar 19, 2008 at 12:55 PM
No! No! No! to the Trans Texas Corridor. Who is it going to benefit? Surely not the lowly land owners and the common man--as is usually the case in many of these wild-hair schemes when government tries to pull the wool over our eyes.

Posted by: Mary Regmund Location: Bryan on Mar 19, 2008 at 07:48 AM
Why should we foot the bill for a Hi way no one will have money left to buy gas to travel down. YES it is a wonderful idea to have a short cute to any place. Who will police this hi-way? Who will we out-sourse the building too?

Posted by: land owner Location: brazos on Mar 18, 2008 at 01:38 PM
gee Brenda Lee how brilliant you are! people use toll highways to travel, not stop and shop. now get back under your rock. this will not benifit anybody local.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Location: Bryan, TX on Mar 17, 2008 at 05:33 PM
Bring it on!!!!! Good for the community business.

Posted by: john Location: College Station on Mar 17, 2008 at 03:36 PM
"Let it run right thru Randy Sims house so he can sit out there selling BBQ sandwitches." Actually he can't; one of the big problems I have with the TTC is that although the State won't BUY any property adjacent to the initial traffic lanes until it's "needed", all development within 600 feet of the corridor is banned UNLESS THE TOLL OPERATOR decides something is "necessary", at which time they ask the State to condemn the property at ag (ie rock bottom) prices and then build and operate anything up to and including a Super WalMart on the land without paying local taxes for the life of the toll contract.

Posted by: Robert Location: Nacogdoches on Mar 17, 2008 at 02:51 PM
The TTC should be decided entirely by the citizens of Texas.

Posted by: land owner Location: brazos co on Mar 17, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Let it run right thru Randy Sims house so he can sit out there selling BBQ sandwitches.

Posted by: Anonymous on Mar 17, 2008 at 11:26 AM
A coke superhighway nice. Now are Brazos County judges can give some PR-Bonds out to are Mexican Drug traffickers. The also need a chance to do crime over and over like in Mexico. Has anyone taking time to drive into Mexico. It is one check point after a other with machine-guns in you're face. Assassination of government and police personal is a way of life for them. The US can not stop ever car are truck at border with Mexico now. WE will be in the crossfire on this one.

Posted by: Judy Location: New Waverly on Mar 17, 2008 at 09:57 AM
I don't know how much effect this will have on the outcome, but at least I can put in my "2 cents worth". I stand 100% against the superhighway coming through our area.

Posted by: Michael Location: Brenham on Mar 17, 2008 at 09:17 AM
The issue Texas residents should be focusing on is not where the TTC should be located. But whether it should exist at all! The TTC is nothing more than the advance of an internationalist scheme bent on destroying our national sovereignty. The TTC has nothing to do with free trade and everything to do with merging Canada, United States and Mexico into a regional government much like the EU, on which it is based. Once this corridor is in place their will be no stopping the flow of drugs, illegal immigrants, terrorist, drunk drivers, rapist, child molesters and predators of all stripes into this country. Make no mistake! This is about the erasing of our national borders and the creation of a regional government. Don't let the internationalist like Robert Pastor, George Bush, or any other elitist tell you otherwise. They are lying to you and know exactly what they're doing! If you love your constitutional liberties as an American, the TTC must, absolutely be opposed!

Posted by: Greg Location: Bryan on Mar 17, 2008 at 08:30 AM
The wording of the question by KBTX makes it challenging to answer, as to answer "no" might imply public opinion is not worthy. It certainly is, but legitimate concerns by transportation officials should also be considered. But I'm still waiting for those.... And county and city officials seem to operate under a "growth at any cost" thinking. They have never met a taxpayer funded expansion they won't endorse, and private property issues do not seem to bother them one iota.

Posted by: john Location: College Station on Mar 17, 2008 at 05:00 AM
"A decision on whether to proceed with the project as is, alter it or scrap it is likely to come later this year." Wrong; the decision to proceed with the project was made 4 years ago, and unless the Texas Congress changes the law, these public comments will have about as much effect on TXDoT as a bunch of kittens crying n a box.

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