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NAFTA Superhighway/IMCTRC/Trans-Texas Corridor
« on: January 18, 2009, 07:08:09 PM »

NAFTA Superhighway
Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA_superhighway

I don't have much to say about this, mainly because there isn't much information about it.

International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor (IMCTRC)
Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mid-Continent_Trade_Corridor

This one is my favourite, mainly because it leads to the border just 50km away from my home town, which will bring more jobs and a freeway, which is what this town needs.

Trans-Texas Corridor
Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Texas_Corridor

I really think something like this is needed, because the roads are really, really bad in Texas from Oklahoma City to Laredo.



What are your opinions on these trade routes?

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Re: NAFTA Superhighway/IMCTRC/Trans-Texas Corridor
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2009, 07:29:06 PM »

Part of the rational for building the Texas 130 toll road is to alleviate traffic congestion in Austin. If you have never been on Interstate 35 through there, its quite a chore to drive because of Austin's ever-expanding growth. The eventual corridor of TX-130 takes the toll road all the way to Interstate 10 east of San Antonio.

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Re: NAFTA Superhighway/IMCTRC/Trans-Texas Corridor
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2009, 10:09:38 PM »

Well...Isn't the "NAFTA Superhighway" and the IMCTRC really one and the same corridor?? (I-35/I-29/I-94)

And as for the Trans-Texas Corridor...well, may that bad idea rot in hell...ahhhh, I mean, rest in peace.

misc.transport.road: RIP Trans-Texas Corridor

Hopefully this will promp Texas officials to get with the rest of America and build their section or I-69 (and the links to Brownsville and Texarkana as freeways, as it should have been in the beginning.


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Re: NAFTA Superhighway/IMCTRC/Trans-Texas Corridor
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2009, 11:28:14 PM »

As of January 6 of this year, the Trans-Texas Corridor is a dead project. I'm including a link from the Dallas Morning News that has all the details.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/010609dnmetttc.43c00ac6.html

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