Transportation News, Volume 28, Number 4, January 2003 Page: 7
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Trans Texas Corridor
The Trans Texas Corridor is as bold an undertaking
as the state of Texas has ever envisioned. This 4,000-
mile engineering project proposes a brand new foot-
print of transportation corridors across the state.
Thanks to innovative funding tools approved by the
Texas Legislature, the Trans Texas Corridor affords
TxDOT new opportunities to forge partnerships with
local communities and private businesses to build the
safest, most efficient system possible.
TxDOT has charted this new course based on Gov.
Rick Perry's vision of transforming the relationship
between government and citizens by providing financial
tools enabling regional and local governments to develop
corridor components.
This new corridor provides separate lanes for pas-
senger vehicles and big trucks, rail facilities for high-
speed passenger, commuter and freight rail, and a ded-
icated utility zone for water, electricity, petroleum, and
data transmission.
Adding lanes to existing highways fails to fully
address our growing transportation crisis. The Trans
Texas Corridor will create a new transportation network
instead of additional decks on existing highways
through Austin, Dallas, Houston, El Paso, San Antonio
and Fort Worth. It will offer toll roads in addition to
existing free roads. When completed, the Trans Texas
Corridor will provide congestion relief for metropolitan
areas, keep hazardous materials out of populated
areas, improve air quality by reducing emissions,
improve safety and boost economic activity.
Priorities include links between Denison and the
Rio Grande Valley (1-35), northeast Texas to Laredo via
Houston (1-69), Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston (1-45),
and El Paso and Orange (1-10). Estimated total cost for
the corridor ranges from $145 billion to $183.5 billion.
Unique among transportation systems anywhere, the
Trans Texas Corridor will provide Texas with a network
designed to move people and goods faster and more
safely than ever before, well into the 21st century.
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