At dinner this evening, I was introduced to someone who drives trucks for a living. He spends every day of the week traveling from Houston to Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso...you name the place, he drives there. After listening to him tell me how much time he spends on the road of Texas I couldn't help but get his opinion on the Trans-Texas Corridor. Who better to render an opinion than a person who spends all his time on the road driving a truck. The very type of person that Rick Perry and TxDOT would have you believe will benefit from this project. His response was alarming, revealing, and reassuring all at the same time. Read on for his response.
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Again, let me make it clear. This person drives a big rig for a living. His livelihood depends on him making it from point A to point B and back again, IN TIME.
My Question to Him: "If I told you that you had two roads to choose from when making a trip from San Antonio to Houston, one was a toll road with lanes designated specifically for truck traffic and the other was the existing I-10, which would you travel and why?"
His Answer: "I would take the toll road. I make more money being their on time or early than if I get stuck in traffic and end up being late."
OK, I wasn't entirely happy with this answer but I pressed on...seeking his honest opinion.
My Question to Him: "OK, now what if I were to tell you that this toll road did not actually go into any major metro areas. In fact, the road made it a point to go around these metro areas at the outskirts of town. For example. The toll road paralleling I-10 would go no further in than Mason road in Katy, and the same true in San Antonio. It would go around the cities and not through them...BY DESIGN."
His Answer: "In that case, I wouldn't take the toll road. Why, the traffic isn't a problem until you get into the city. Not between San Antonio and Houston but in those towns is where traffic is a problem. No, I wouldn't take the toll road."
I spent the rest of our dinner conversation telling him about the Trans-Texas Corridor and the general point of his responses was one of utter disgust. He was in disbelief that a project as pointless as that would even be considered. At the end of the night, I still don't think he believed that something like the TTC even exists.
Bottom Line...this project makes absolutely no sense to a person who spends all their time traveling the roads of Texas. Not for pleasure, but to make a living. This is exactly the type of person that Rick Perry and TxDOT claim to be trying to help out with this project.
If that isn't proof enough, I don't know what is. Its time we put the brakes on the superhighway to nowhere, from nowhere, that noone will be traveling.
My Question to Him: "If I told you that you had two roads to choose from when making a trip from San Antonio to Houston, one was a toll road with lanes designated specifically for truck traffic and the other was the existing I-10, which would you travel and why?"
His Answer: "I would take the toll road. I make more money being their on time or early than if I get stuck in traffic and end up being late."
OK, I wasn't entirely happy with this answer but I pressed on...seeking his honest opinion.
My Question to Him: "OK, now what if I were to tell you that this toll road did not actually go into any major metro areas. In fact, the road made it a point to go around these metro areas at the outskirts of town. For example. The toll road paralleling I-10 would go no further in than Mason road in Katy, and the same true in San Antonio. It would go around the cities and not through them...BY DESIGN."
His Answer: "In that case, I wouldn't take the toll road. Why, the traffic isn't a problem until you get into the city. Not between San Antonio and Houston but in those towns is where traffic is a problem. No, I wouldn't take the toll road."
I spent the rest of our dinner conversation telling him about the Trans-Texas Corridor and the general point of his responses was one of utter disgust. He was in disbelief that a project as pointless as that would even be considered. At the end of the night, I still don't think he believed that something like the TTC even exists.
Bottom Line...this project makes absolutely no sense to a person who spends all their time traveling the roads of Texas. Not for pleasure, but to make a living. This is exactly the type of person that Rick Perry and TxDOT claim to be trying to help out with this project.
If that isn't proof enough, I don't know what is. Its time we put the brakes on the superhighway to nowhere, from nowhere, that noone will be traveling.
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