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Heres an opinion editorial I wrote for tomorrow's newspaper.
If you agree with what I've written I urge you to click on the link below and submit feedback to TxDot.
Thanks


Act Fast – comments to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot) must be submitted by Friday April 18, 2008.

Fellow Texans need your help. Heed the call and contact TxDot using the information below. Exercise your right to say NO to TxDot’s plan to seize private land for use in their New Location Corridors.

Over the past few years the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot) has decided to build a super-highway through Texas with capacity for 6 car lanes, 4 truck lanes and 6 rail lines. Initially the plan was to upgrade existing facilities (i.e. purchase right-of-way and widen existing highways) such as I-77 and I-37. Recently however, TxDot has flexed its muscle and abandoned the existing highway approach on some routes in favor of a more totalitarian method of seizing private land through eminent domain. To make things clear, TxDot will be building new highways through the yards of Texas residents, whereby thousands of acres of Texas wilderness and rural homesteads will be seized.

I support infrastructure and the building of highways but I expect it to be within the footprint of existing highways. By abandoning the existing highway approach and deciding to blaze a path across Texas, TxDot is saying to the people of Texas “TxDot’s goals are more important than landowner’s rights.” TxDot is implying it is better to take land and homes from hardworking, tax-paying farmers and ranchers than it is to purchase right-of-way and expand existing highways. Such an approach is laden with the arrogance we’ve come to expect from the behemoth TxDot. It smacks of socialism where the loss of individual rights and ownership is regarded as cost-effective.

Texans have always viewed themselves through a lens of independence and it is our duty to stand up to those who would take our homes, our land and our freedom.
Take a few minutes to write your congressman AND contact TxDot today, April 18, 2008 the final day for the online comment period. Write TxDot a short message to voice your disapproval of their plans to seize private land for New Location Corridors. Comments to TxDot can be made online at http://ttc.keeptexasmoving.com/comments_questions/comments_i69.aspx

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Your political heros at work, be very afraid.

[Big John]

Same politicans that say there is no more money to expand highways here in San Antonio, and that all new highways here need to be tollways due to lack of general funds in Tx Dots coffers. Strange they have money to seize private land, which must be paid for, and build this mega-goliath super highway.
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[Rudy]

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