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The Super Superhighway
valdean writes "The state of Texas is seeking to build a 4,000-mile megahighway network between Oklahoma and Mexico, called the Trans-Texas Corridor. The highway will be up to a quarter-mile across, and include separate lanes for passenger vehicles, large trucks, freight railways, high-speed commuter railways, and infrastructure for utilities including water lines, oil and gas pipelines, electricity, and broadband. In a recent press release, the governor of Texas said it will 'forever change the way we build roads.' So much for scenic drives."
this must be that giant sucking sound Ross Perot was referring to.
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Not wide enough for the next version Humvee.
> the picture perfect example of urban sprawl with no zoning plans (i.e. porn-shop-next-to-a-church-next-to-a-liquor-store
That's called the "weekend one-stop".
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I live in Texas... People who haven't been here can't understand a phrase like "big as Texas." Going from El Paso to DFW via the interstate is like crossing interstellar space in the STS!
Instead of the TTC we need Trans-Warp Conduits!
I think this is great for transportation in general. This is a huge step in changing the way we think about highways and freeways. We need find better ways to relieve traffic jams and one of the most obvious is more lanes.
You may say it costs more but that cost will be paid back 100-fold in terms of delivering people to their destination more quickly. People in New York, Boston, LA and other major cities usually don't think twice about driving a car to work cause there's too much traffic.
Looking to the future I think you'll see these super highways stretching across much of the country and even high into the sky. If it where over some large city they'd be really high up and there'd be offramps to today's freeways.
They should start with a certain ranch in Crawford.
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That being said, there is a lot of reluctance to this project.
If you're so opposed to this modern development, why don't you just go live in the middle of nowhere, like out in the plains of... uh.. never mind.
Excuse me, but how many of you have driven through northern Texas and Oklahoma?
I have, and there a darn good reason why the abbeviation for Oklahoma is "OK" and not "GREAT".
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Am I the only one who noticed along side this proposed mega-highway is a proposal for Interstate I-69? I can already see a rash of sign thefts occuring as soon as they are put up.
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How many college students move back to the small town because its "home"?
This is Slashdot! How many of us ever LEFT?
well, I should have learned how to use the tag apparently...
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I've been plenty of other places, and Texas is big. It's bigger than any European country.
Texas: 678,054 sq km.
Russia: 17,075,200 sq km.
You know, I think there is an easier and cheaper way to get rid of animals than making them run a quarter mile freeway gauntlet....
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If you don't like them, just shoot them
Then again, maybe my "Flattened Fauna" book would come in handy....
The people of Jupiter would like to point out that our planet is bigger than yours. Take that Earthlings.
Yes but the size of your heads are even larger.
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