Trans-Texas Corridor

The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is a toll road to run north-and-south through Texas to be operated exclusively for at least 50 years by a Spanish company, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A.

Construction is planned to begin later this year. This highway would bisect Texas from Oklahoma to its border with Mexico with a 10-lane limited-access road to parallel Interstate 35. It would have three lanes each way for passenger cars, two express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for people and freight, plus a utility corridor for oil and natural gas pipelines, electric towers, cables for communication, and telephone lines.

This project requires taking o84,000 acres of farm and ranch land at an estimated cost of $11 billion to $30 billion - property then lost from the tax rolls of counties and school districts.

The Trans-Texas Corridor will be the first leg of what has been dubbed the NAFTA Super Highway to go through heartland America all the way to Canada. This would be a major lifeline of the plan to merge the United States into a North American Community.

Plans include allowing the Kansas City Southern de Mexico Railroad to bring Chinese goods in sealed cargo containers from the southern Mexican port of Lazaro Cardinas direct to Kansas City, Mo. Mexican trucks will be able to drive more sealed containers up the fast lanes of the NAFTA Super Highway, inspected only electronically if at all, and making their first customs stop in Kansas City.

Additional Sources

Council on Foreign Relations proposal for a North American Union.