"The rights of private property owners may be more endangered than those blind salamanders or spotted owls."
No shortage of opinions on Corridor
August 11, 2006
From staff reports
The Gazette-Enterprise
Copyright 2006
Wednesday night’s meeting at the Seguin-Guadalupe County Coliseum proved the issue of the Trans-Texas Corridor is a volatile one.
Rural landowners are angry and upset about the prospect of another concrete monstrosity snaking across their property — swallowing up fields and valleys that have been in their families for generations.
The sting of a Supreme Court decision that allows government to seize private property for development just served as another warning sign that the rights of private property owners may be more endangered than those blind salamanders or spotted owls.
Everyone at the public hearing was against the proposed mega highway — and the state should pay attention.
If the state believes the people are misguided, then its incumbent upon it to explain the project correctly. People also have a responsibility to get the facts and not to bite on spin coming from either side of the issue.
That Texas will face transportation challenges in the years ahead is an unavoidable reality. Those challenges require answers, but they must be answers the people are informed about and comfortable with.
© 2006 The Gazette-Enterprise: www.seguingazette.com
August 11, 2006
From staff reports
The Gazette-Enterprise
Copyright 2006
Wednesday night’s meeting at the Seguin-Guadalupe County Coliseum proved the issue of the Trans-Texas Corridor is a volatile one.
Rural landowners are angry and upset about the prospect of another concrete monstrosity snaking across their property — swallowing up fields and valleys that have been in their families for generations.
The sting of a Supreme Court decision that allows government to seize private property for development just served as another warning sign that the rights of private property owners may be more endangered than those blind salamanders or spotted owls.
Everyone at the public hearing was against the proposed mega highway — and the state should pay attention.
If the state believes the people are misguided, then its incumbent upon it to explain the project correctly. People also have a responsibility to get the facts and not to bite on spin coming from either side of the issue.
That Texas will face transportation challenges in the years ahead is an unavoidable reality. Those challenges require answers, but they must be answers the people are informed about and comfortable with.
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posted by Porkus Maximus Tex: at Friday, August 11, 2006
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