The Trans-Texas Corridor project, as envisioned by Republican Gov. Rick Perry in 2002, would be a 4,000-mile transportation network costing an awesome $175 billion over 50 years, financed mostly if not entirely with private money. The builders would then charge motorists tolls.

But these would not be mere highways. Proving anew that everything’s big in Texas, they would be megahighways — corridors up to a quarter-mile across, consisting of as many as six lanes for cars and four for trucks, plus railroad tracks, oil and gas pipelines, water and other utility lines, even broadband transmission cables.

...the Texas Transportation Commission on Dec. 16 opened negotiations with the Spain-based consortium Cintra to start the first phase of the project, a $7.5 billion, 800-mile corridor that would stretch from Oklahoma to Mexico and run parallel to Interstate 35.

I don’t like what they are planning but I do like the idea of creating fast transportation from the far south to the far north. I wish more time and money would be put into a faster rail system and cleaner quicker transportation on the national and local level.

We need support for cities to rework the way people get around in way other than cars. Expanding walking areas and making them safer as well, working on cleaner and more reliable public transportation, as well as having sidewalks and bike routes at least in all congested areas would be some nice starts.

I have a bike and live less than a mile from Walmart, Aldi grocery store, and a large shopping area with stores like Kohls, Ross, and all sorts of other shops and restaurants yet I cant get to any of it on a bike; some of it not at all and none of it safely.