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The '''Trans-Texas Corridor ''' ('''TTC''') is was a [[toll road ]] to run north-and-south through [[Texas to be operated exclusively for at least 50 years by a Spanish company]]. The state announced in January, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte2009, Sit would not be built; critics called it a boondoggle and a threat to American nationalism.A[[File:Trans-texas.jpg|thumb|150px]] ==Plans==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 o84would take 584,000 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 Critics said it would be a major lifeline of the plan to merge allow the United States to merge into a North American Communityeconomy. In 2011, the Texas Legislature passed HB 1201 to formally cancel the Trans-Texas Corridor.<ref>http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=82R&Bill=HB1201</ref>==Further reading==* [http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/01/07/01072009wacttc.html# Tim Woods, "State officials scrap Trans-Texas Corridor," ''Waco Tribune-Herald'' Jan. 07, 2009]* [https://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/010609dnmetttc.43c00ac6.html Michael A. Lindenberger, "Trans Texas Corridor Is Dead, Txdot Says," ''The Dallas Morning News,'' Jan.6, 2009]