TEXAS - Earlier this year, East Texans turned out by the hundreds to protest Texas Department of Transportation's proposed Trans-Texas Corridor. It appears their collective voice was heard loud and clear.
Wednesday, the Texas Department of Transportation will officially announce that those plans for the corridor have been scraped. Instead, it will follow the original Highway 59 Corridor.
TEX-DOT spokesman Larry Krantz tells KETK, "people were saying don't take our land, we don't want you to develop a big superhighway without taking a look at what was available on US 59 first."
Thank you Sweet Jesus!!!
5 comments:
I'm so glad your farm is not in danger now! What a blessing!
Yea! A great victory for all the farmland in Texas (which seems to be slipping away slowly!)
congrats,
kari & kijsa
Hallelujah for you and all the other land owners threatened by the Super Highway...gotta save those farms and land...and what better way than to use land already allocated for highway use! DUH! Sometimes these planners and such...just get a little carried away!
Congrats...
Teresa
Oh Julie, that is WONDERFUL news!!! I am so happy for all of you! It would have been such a tragedy for them to do that!
Hugs,
Amy
I'm so happy for you! My sister (the one who's garden I wrote about a couple of days ago) faces the threat of a bypass coming right by her property. I hope she has the same luck as you! You must be soooo relieved.
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