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What do you think about the Trans Texas Corridor? Is this is raw deal?
Secret deal with a private foreign company.
Gov. Rick Perry has had secret negations with a company from Spain, Cintra, to hold a 70 year concession for a portion of the Corridor. Perry and Cintra/Zachery withheld the agreement from the public, claiming it included proprietary information, even though taxpayer dollars to the tune of $3.5 million is going to Cintra's partner, Zachry, for planning.
Attorney General Greg Abbott rendered an opinion in June, 2005 that states the documents are public record, after the Houston Chronicle and other newspapers around Texas were refused when they asked to see the deal.
Cintra/Zachry and TxDOT filed a lawsuit against the AG in July, 2005 to keep the secret a secret.
The state will take 1/2 million acres, including the richest farm land in Texas called "The Blacklands".
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- Michael CLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I do not like the concept of the Trans Texas Corridor at all. We have enough problems securing our national borders without essentially extending those borders all the way thorugh Texas. It will benefit the Mexican economy, but be little to no help to the areas it's being driven through.
Perry's crappy and probably illegal actions just make things worse.
Source(s): I live in Houston. - M BLv 51 decade ago
I think that Corporate America, with the help of our politicians, is systematically selling out the American citizens. This highway will bring in drugs and illegals and will ship out more jobs (trucking jobs) for the American middle class, but hey the wealthy business owners will make more money.
