Public Meetings Begin In Gigantic Texas Toll Road Project

"This state has to look outside the box and the traditional ways we've been doing things the last 50 years," Perry spokesman Robert Black said. The TTC would crisscross the state — for the most part roughly paralleling existing interstate highways — with up to quarter-mile-wide ribbons of separate highways for cars and trucks, rail lines, pipelines and utility lines. Cost of the project has been estimated at approaching $200 billion, and it could take as long as 50 years to complete. ... The first phase of the TTC, envisioned as part of a superhighway stretching from Oklahoma to Mexico roughly parallelling Interstate 35, was planned by the Cintra Zachry consortium under a contract with the state. It's composed of Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte SA of Spain, one of the world's largest developers of toll roads, and Zachry Construction Co. of San Antonio. Its legal representative is the firm of Bracewell & Giuliani, the home firm of GOP presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who counts Perry among his supporters. ... http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D8U5VC080

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