Trans-Texas Corridor's Demise Greatly Exaggerated

The Statesman is reporting that earlier rumors of the death of the Trans-Texas Corridor (Rick Perry's proposed 1,200 foot wide superhighway running parallel to I-35) have been confirmed. More accurately, the term "Trans-Texas Corridor" has been discarded as politically disadvantageous, the portions of the plan that were not a toll highway have been indefinitely postponed and the segment that connected to Mexico has been scrapped.

As TXDOT explains in the Vision 2009 plan released today, "The Trans-Texas Corridor name has taken on unintended meaning that can obscure the facts.... Instead, we will implement a corridor program that will house the tools of innovative project development and delivery springing from TTC events, but will use the names generally associated with individual projects." See? Isn't that so much less obscure? We're not building a "NAFTA Superhighway." We're just building a few little toll roads to help the suburbs stretching from San Antonio to Dallas sprawl another few hundred miles eastward.