Texas Wants To Put The "Super" Back In "Superhighway"

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In what sounds like another tall tale told by a Texan, the Lone Star State has embarked on an audacious project to build superhighways so big, so complex, that they will make ordinary interstates look like cowpaths.
The Trans-Texas Corridor project, as envisioned by Republican Gov. Rick Perry in 2002, would be a 4,000-mile transportation network costing an awesome $175 billion over 50 years, financed mostly if not entirely with private money. The builders would then charge motorists tolls.
But these would not be mere highways. Proving anew that everything's big in Texas, they would be megahighways - corridors up to a quarter-mile across, consisting of as many as six lanes for cars and four for trucks, plus railroad tracks, oil and gas pipelines, water and other utility lines, even broadband transmission cables.

Some official information is available here. A group supporting the highway can be found here.

I'll give you a summary. This thing is expected to have about 6 lanes for cars, four lanes for trucks, train tracks, and all the utilities that it can run next to the road. It will be built with private money, if possible, and be funded by tolls. The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is part of a planned Canada-US-Mexico superhighway that runs through Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The highway is expected to be an important part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and will create a single route between Canada and Mexico.
Of course, as most of this highway looks like it will pass through the US, the US probably stands to benefit the most (but also pay the most). Further, the highway should divert some shipping from west-coast ports, which have gone on strike, costing California and the shipping industry billions. Additionally, an international project of this scale may be seen as a forerunner to a new canal bridging the Atlantic and Pacific, as the Panama Canal will break given enough time, because the government of Panama has made no effort to maintain the canal (control and responsibility for the canal was given to Panama fairly recently).

Now, I love all things big, new, and built with an eye at least a decade into the future. And I definitely love this highway.
Once the highway is built, hundreds or thousands of little towns and cities will sprout up along it. Additionally, it may be an excellent step in reforming the national power grid. Proposed reforms have been halted in congress for many years; one of the recent opponents of the reform (both before and after the giant blackout in the Northeast) has been Hillary Clinton.