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."

Holy crap Ross Perot was right!

[PrvtBurrito]

this must be that giant sucking sound Ross Perot was referring to.

Pave the Earth!

[gorbachev]

yiihaaa!

Re:Soooo...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not wide enough for the next version Humvee.

Re: Scenic Texas

[Black Parrot]

> 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".

Perry has seen the future?

[vanboy]

"Some thought the Trans-Texas Corridor was a pie-in-the-sky idea that would never see the light of day," said Perry, who has compared his plan to the interstate highway system started during the Eisenhower administration. "We have seen the future, and it's here today."

He must not have seen Back to the Future. Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.

Re:Soooo...

[akgunkel]

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!

Re:Great

[Anonymous Coward]

This will make it easier for those foreign people from Mexico comming over illegully.

Yep, the only thing liberals hate more that those honky-tonk redneck racists from Texas are spics.

Super High(UP)ways

[SmoothDime]

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.

By the time..

[trendescape]

By the time they actually finish this roadways will be obsolete and we'll all have jetpacks like we've all been promised!

Re: Scenic Texas

[Anonymous Coward]

In Dallas there is a strip mall that has in order:

1) liquor store
2) gun store
3) bail bonds agency

Now thats a weekend one-stop.

Re:Holy crap Ross Perot was right!

[Rosyna]

Yay. A direct and fast method for immigrating illegal aliens into the middle of the US. All that highway switching was confusing the drivers of those inhumane trucks.

Re:Everything's bigger in Texas!

[thomasdelbert]

They should start with a certain ranch in Crawford.

- Thomas;

Re:Hmm.. some problems with this.

[seanadams.com]

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.

And chrome the moon!

[Anonymous Coward]

(obligatory, sorry)

So much for scenic drives?

[SuperKendall]

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".

Re:what about human powered?

[Anonymous Coward]

pedestrians and bicycles??

Have you ever even been to Texas? Towns are hundreds of miles apart. The heat on the side of the highway during the summer would melt a bike. I doubt a Vespa would even make it from Dallas to Austin during the summer. (and if the heat didn't take it out, a dualie sure would)

Re:Scenic Texas

[Anonymous Coward]

Shit, quit telling them that, I don't want thoes yankies down here smoking my weed and drinking my beer, leave them up in the Cold. (side note, I had 4 inches of snow in College Station one day last week WOOP)

Interstate 69

[brolewis]

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.

Re:Pave the Earth!

[DNS-and-BIND]

We believe in a completely Paved Earth.

Earth is cursed with trees, shrubs, grass, and scurrying creatures. With every breath We act to right this terrible wrong.

We believe in The Plan (tm).

The Plan (tm) is the final word; it brings us the knowledge of the twin pleasures: Speed and Convenience.

We believe food should be enjoyed.

"Nutrition" is an aberration of human nature. The juicy Burger and hearty Beer are Our sacrament.

We believe in the Depletion of scarce natural resources.

Some see the vessel as half full; others see it as half empty; We pour it out on the floor and laugh.

We believe in a sky roiling with Smog.

The color blue should appear nowhere but the paint on Our Hypercars (tm).

Re:Soooo...

[Anonymous Coward]

No offence to you (somehow Normal Texans), but I think we need to kick you out of the union all together, and for that matter, we can ship all of Utah there also... Maybe Mexico can take you back or something... Then we need to dig a 20 mile wide channel and fill it with aligators or mutant aligators or something, and disable any aircraft you might have.

Sure, we'll be hurtin for oil, but maybe with your asinine politicians out of the loop we could do something constructive for a change.

Move back... home?

[Ghostgate]

How many college students move back to the small town because its "home"?

This is Slashdot! How many of us ever LEFT?

Re:Interstate 69

[metalligoth]

I-69 [state-ends.com] exists!

What you might find far more interesting is the work needed to keep the sign up at I-75's Exit 69, Big Beaver Road, in Troy, Michigan.

Here's a website trying to make some money from the spectacle... [getoffonbigbeaver.com]

Re:Soooo...

[TWX]

well, I should have learned how to use the </i> tag apparently...

Re:Soooo...

[tigress]

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.

Won't anyone think of the armadillos....

[winwar]

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....

If you don't like them, just shoot them :)

Then again, maybe my "Flattened Fauna" book would come in handy....

Re:In Soviet Russia

[alzoron]

The people of Jupiter would like to point out that our planet is bigger than yours. Take that Earthlings.

Re:Soooo...

[Anonymous Coward]

This is Texas we're talking about. Of course it will be executed correctly. That's one thing Texans like, enjoy, have a lot of skills at: executions.

Re:Soooo...

[CK2004PA]

" Texas doesn't claim to be the biggest place on earth. But, it's big, cattle ranch or no."

Yes but the size of your heads are even larger.