The Executive Director of TxDOT and Governor Rick Perry announced today that the dreaded Trans Texas Corridor is dead as originally planned. 

The megalithic roadway/railway planned to cut through some of the best farmland in Texas on its way to Mexico stirred much controversy.  People living in its path faced losing farms that had been in their families for generations.  During the many years it took to determine even a possible path (and a definite one was never determined), no one knew if their land would be impacted, or how, or if they could sell their land, or if they should buy land that might be condemned for the planned 1200 foot wide strip of asphalt and railway covering the earth.  

I was used to seeing, in my travels through the countryside, signs warning that TxDOT employees were not welcome on this or that piece of land and that trespassing would be dealt with severely.  (That's paraphrasing; firearms were mentioned on the standard sign.)

A group of small towns (Bartlett, Holland, Little River-Academy, and Rogers) that were in danger of being overrun by the Trans Texas Corridor united to form the Eastern Central Texas Sub-Regional Planning Commission (ECTSRPC) to at least delay it, if not stop it outright.

All in all, the people most impacted by this behemoth were not in favor of it, but Governor Perry and TxDOT pressed on. 

Now, it's been declared dead.  But these things have a way of being resurrected in a new guise, so those concerned are not relaxing yet. 

However, tonight - a wake for the Trans Texas Corridor! Margaritas all 'round!