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April 2008
Who supports the corridor?
Local and state government officials, including the Mayor of Lufkin, took a beating in this blog about Williamson County, Texas, for advocating benefits of the TTC to the Senate Transportation Committee Thursday.
Which makes me wonder what the range thinking is on the issue in East Texas. Here’s a poll question:
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Sierra Club weighs in on TTC-69
Sal Costello of The Muckraker/TexasTollParty has posted what appears to be the complete text of a letter from the Sierra Club urging TxDOT to consider (or re-consider) literally hundreds of aspects of the project’s design.
We can’t find this posted anywhere else, but regardless of sourcing, it makes for an interesting read about the highway’s potential conflict with the environment.
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Rally in Austin
No word from either the Austin American-Statesman or the Houston Chronicle on whether Texas TURF met their goal of 10,000 protesters, but Saturday’s march on the Texas capitol appears to have been a boisterous, flag-ridden rally, replete with incendiary posters and a good number of “Come and Take It” flags.
View a slide show of the event here.
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Anti-Anti-TTC
Misinformation. Subterfuge. Sabotage. Ah yes, and of course, the Trans Texas Corridor.
The latest allegation by TexasTurf and other anti-TTC groups is that comments made this week by Texas Senator Steve Ogden to a Walker County official were intended to undermine Turf’s rally against the highway planned for this weekend in Austin.
Turf quoted Ogden saying “TTC-69 is dead.” The comment, Turf says, was meant to keep the angry mob away from Austin, believing they had won. Ogden, in turn, says he was misquoted, that he meant “TTC-69 is dead in Walker County.”
TURF says a second incident, in which a witness said she heard the Mayor of Kendleton attempt to discourage attendance at the rally, was also an attempt to sabotage anti-TTC efforts.
There’s a lot of unconfirmed, partisan information here. But the episode is indicative of widespread feelings among many citizens of anger and mistrust that are very, very real.
In the meantime, public comments on the TTC Draft Environment Impact Statement are still being collected.
