Thanks Oldtimer for postin that in Political Bull. Has our community in an uproar here, town meetings goin on just about ever tuesday night. They were saying that the 6 mile wide strip of land they'd grab up from Houston to Dallas (and that's only one of about 5 or 6 spread across the state) would basically gobble our lil town up. This is a place you don't hafta lock your doors at night, your kids can ride their bicycles around town without worryin that someone will Knab yer kid. Fairly a drug free community. "m not sayin our lil town is any different that any of the others in the path of this proposed highway, but after the highway that they plan gets built, they plan on puttin hotels, motels, gas stations, and resturants between the north and south bound...in that huge six mile gap......which I'm sure in the long run would end up being, apartment complexes, subdivisions, etc that they'd sell back to homeowners in 10 years or so.....it aint right. no way shape or form. NOt to mention all the agricultural land they'd ruin that would no longer be productive in supplyin Texas and the nation with food and clothing. Why they started this in Texas, I don't know......but they are gettin BIG opposition from the public. So far Rick Perry hasn't done anything he said he was gonna do for this state, he's had two terms to get it done, so I say git rid of him and get someone else in here that'll do for the state and not for himself.