Boston Globe

Texans ponder where superhighway might take them

…”I think it’s overkill,” said Wilson Toudouze, a San Antonio rancher whose mother lives in Refugio. “I think there’s probably better alternatives than taking this enormous amount of private property and giving it to the state.” — “This wasn’t what we were sold in the original I-69 – all those pipelines and train lines,” added Melvin Santiago…

And now this South Texas outpost is swept up in one of the more intriguing tests of myth vs. reality in today’s political life: the battle over the so-called NAFTA Superhighway.

Local residents came together last week for one in a series of public hearings on the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor, a massive public works project that in this area would take the form of a superhighway from the Mexican border to the Arkansas border, with special trucking lanes and rail lines, along with communication and utility cables.

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