2006jun16. WE GOT OURSELVES A CORRIDOR!!!! What’s amazing about this freaking boondoggle is how little attention it’s getting in the media. Is there any attention? Anyone? I guess the basic idea here is that some trucker can get into his Mexican-government approved truck in Manzanillo, for example, and just tootle straight on through the US (US truckers love this part) all the way up to Canada, if need be. They can’t do that now because Mexican trucks suck, among other reasons. So instead of having Mexico beef up the infrastructure, they’re going to make this crazy-ass 50-years-to-construct superhighway chopping America in half. And it’s supposed to have LIGHT RAIL as well? Because everyone’s hot to travel from Houston to Fargo, man that is one hot ticket there, that will pay for itself in no time. And then, I’m sure the quarter-mile wide “corridor” will also have some sort of special designation with local and national police forces, Border Patrol will use this as a way to spread their wings even more (they’ll need 100 miles out from the freeway in every direction, naturally). It will be just like the railway going into Singapore, which isn’t actually in Singapore. The physical ground beneath the railway is owned by Malaysia, so there’s this liddle strip of Malaysia that sneaks all the way down to the Singapore train station. That’s what Nasco will be like, it will be this international extralegal entity. They’re contracting foreign contractors to build the thing, another logical government step just like stiffing local contractors in New Orleans after Katrina. Print more money.
