Texans ponder where superhighway might take them - the Trans-Texas Corridor or the so-called NAFTA Superhighway - (I haven’t seen much on this but it is important)

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Posted on: March 5th, 2008
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“With an abandoned Wild West-vintage town of storefronts slumbering just a block from old US 77, tiny Refugio is a place where myth and reality coexist in a ghostly silence.

And now this South Texas outpost is swept up in one of the more intriguing tests of myth vs. reality in today’s political life: the battle over the so-called NAFTA Superhighway.

Local residents came together last week for one in a series of public hearings on the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor, a massive public works project that in this area would take the form of a superhighway from the Mexican border to the Arkansas border, with special trucking lanes and rail lines, along with communication and utility cables.”*

*From: http://www.boston.com
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