Highway Building: Texas Style

Gov. Rick Perry's proposed solution to Texas' ever-worsening traffic would be built by private contractors and funded by mostly toll lanes. The monstrous highway would "crisscross the state, diverting long-distance traffic onto superhighways designed to skirt crowded urban centers". The plan calls for placing cars and trucks in separate lanes, commuter and freight train lines and pipelines for utilities including "water, oil, natural gas, electricity and fiber optics". Opponents have criticized the TTC's "proposed route, width, and financing - and even the need for it."