Feds: More Roads Will Save Us
Feds confirm more cash for the Trans-Texas corridor and I-10.
By Richard Whittaker, 1:26PM, Tue. Sep. 11, 2007
It used to be that the future of transport was going to be atomic-powered jet packs strapped to our foreheads. Now it's corridors.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has decided that as part of its Corridors of the Future project, to solve what it calls "national congestion relief," it's going to spend $17 billion in federal funds on six major highways. Big chunks of two of these roads run through Texas: I-69 (aka the infamous Trans-Texas corridor) and I-10 from California to Florida, running parallel to the Mexican border from El Paso to Orange. Texas is on-line to get $6 billion of the I-69 cash, plus potentially part of another $8.6 billion for easing up congestion on I-10.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, they're expecting total travel on the whole length of I-69 to be 23 million vehicle miles per day by 2015. Just a thought, but any possibility of some of that de-congestion cash going on, say, investing in long-distance rail freight?
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