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Hey OT, remember the NAFTA highway?

hypocritexposer

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Was that the Interstate 15, that travels from Mexico to Canada?

Have you seen the pics of the overpass that Bundy uses as a backdrop...yep, that's interstate 15.

Anybody know anything about plans for a highspeed rail line, along I-15?
 

backhoeboogie

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I thought it was coming up I-35 but could be totally wrong. THere was much discussion and newspaper postings in this area. Many proposed routes. A few proponents and many opponents.

Think they were calling it the trans-Texas corridor. Could be something totally different. It was designed for importation from Mexico.
 

backhoeboogie

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You can google and get a million pieces of info.

Here's a map: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Proposed+Trans+Texas+Corridor+Map&go=&qs=bs&form=QBIR#view=detail&id=08749ED34F9A2118488D2F2FEA6CEBEF58F371D9&selectedIndex=30
 

mrj

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My guess is that the central route through Kansas City with those wonderful natural caves already used for cold storage under KC, and the proximity to large populations of consumers would be the sensible route.

However, the western route via I-15 would be through less populated areas, therefore fewer prying eyes, and questioning minds wanting to know what is going on, would be the 'favored' route in minds of our 'leaders'.

mrj
 

hypocritexposer

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read about I-15 on wikipedia, and it sure sounds like they are trying to develop a lot of land along that corridor.


Since the creation of Interstate 15, it has served as a long-haul route for North American commerce. It is now officially chartered for this purpose. From the junction of Interstate 515 in Las Vegas to the Canadian border, I-15 forms part of the CANAMEX Corridor, a High Priority Corridor, as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement.[3]

Local portions were built to connect the Inland Empire with San Diego in California, facilitate tourism access to Las Vegas, interconnect all of the Metropolitan Statistical Areas in Utah except for Logan, and provide freeway bypasses for Pocatello, Idaho Falls, and Great Falls.

Since the construction of Interstate 15, California, Nevada, and Utah have consistently ranked in the fastest growing areas of the United States. As a result, the route of I-15 has substantially increased in population and commuter traffic has increased the traffic burden on the freeway. Current population estimates are that more than 75 percent of the population of Utah,[4] 19 percent of the population of California, and more than 70 percent of the population of Nevada live in counties where Interstate 15 is the primary Interstate Highway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_15

Due to this rapid area growth, the I-15 corridor is the focus of several mass transit projects. The Las Vegas Monorail, FrontRunner commuter rail system and TRAX light rail in Salt Lake City are mass transit lines loosely parallel to I-15 that are now in operation. Between Los Angeles and Las Vegas has long been proposed as a maglev train route; in 2004 the California-Nevada Interstate Maglev project held public meetings on the plan.[8]

Wasn't it Reid that was pushing for stimulus money to build the high speed from LA to Las Vegas. The next logical "expansion", would be to Salt Lake City, from Las Vegas.
 
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