They call it progress!!

[Marilyn]

Is that the I69 corridor? I know they were building it somewhere in Indiana. If it is, it will eventually extend all the way to Mexico. There is some controversy about the route here in Texas. It may go down the current US59 to Laredo, or down 59 to Victoria and divert down US77 to Brownsville, or down 59 past Victoria and divert to yet another highway (I forget the number) to the valley.

I69 was one of Rick Perry's things. He was behind the whole I69/Trans Texas Corridor. The corridor got dropped, thankfully, but the I69 part is still supposed to happen eventually.

Rick Perry made a lot of people down here very angry when he was trying to force the TTC. A lot of people would have lost a lot of land. It was two interstates running parallel one for trucks and one for cars plus two rail lines, one for freight and one for passengers. The land along the corridor would belong to the state and be leased to hotels and other commercial enterprises. The TTC would have been a toll road managed by a company from Spain. Not too many proud native Texans went for this deal and it finally died. I owned land that would have been taken by the TTC, so I attended some of the meetings. What a mess it was!!!

And the guy is running for President. I heard today on the radio that he will announce his candidacy on Saturday. He was asked by a reporter recently why he wasn't so popular in his home state, and he quoted the scripture about Christ's rejection by the people he grew up with that a prophet is not accepted in his own land. The rest of the country wasn't involved in the whole TTC thing here at home, so he may have a chance.