The Texas Department of Transportation today announced that it has effectively pulled the plug on its ambitious and widely publicized Trans-Texas Corridor, a comprehensive transportation plan introduced by TxDOT and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) in 2002. What was once envisioned as 4,000 miles of existing and new highways, railways and utility rights-of-way now will be attempted in smaller segments.
Major contracting consortiums had lined up to build the first tollways that would be part of the corridor plan as public-private partnerships. How many PPPs will be involved in the scaled back transportation plan remains to be seen.