Super Corridor -- or Super Hype ...? You may have heard of the proposed North American SuperCorridor, a highway, four football fields widths wide, which is supposed to stretch from Mexico to Canada, and run through places like Laredo, Kansas City, and Duluth ...

Jerome Corsi writes in HumanEvents this morning:

The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) is ready to begin construction in 2007, building the first segment of what is planned to be a NAFTA Super Highway stretching from Mexico to Canada. As we have previously written, the NAFTA Super Highway is planned to begin at Laredo, Tex., proceeding north to Kansas City via Oklahoma City, and ultimately connecting with Canadian limited-access highways north of Duluth, Minn.

On March 11, 2005, a "Comprehensive Development Agreement" was signed by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to build the "TTC-35 High Priority Corridor" parallel to Interstate 35. The contracting party involved a limited partnership formed between Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a publically listed company headquartered in Spain, owned by the Madrid-based Groupo Ferrovial, and a San Antonio-based construction company, Zachry Construction Corp.The Comprehensive Development Agreement called for Cintra-Zachry to provide private investment of $6 billion (click here for the rest of the article, more of Corsi's thorough documentation and maps ...)

Well ... maybe it won't go through Duluth, though, because the "SuperCorridor" is being called an internet myth, by at least one local news outlet.

From BusinessNorth, out of northern Wisconsin/Minnesota:

An article on plans for a four-football field wide Super Highway from Mexico to Canada. Danielle Kaeding has the story on the internet rumor.

Minnesota Department of Transportation’s John Bray says he’s heard all about the internet article boasting the Bush Administration’s plans to build a Super Highway from Mexico to Canada. “Whoever wrote it, I think I would recommend that they take a couple aspirins, lay down, take a snooze, and get up and write something that has some credibility to it. This thing has no credibility at least as far as our agency is concerned.”

A non-profit organization called North America SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. or NASCO is mentioned in the article. The group is supposedly working with the Administration on plans for the Super Highway.

But NASCO Director Tiffany Melvin says there must be some sort of misunderstanding. “We’re not working with the administration to create a new highway or anything like that. We’re an advocacy group tries to bring attention to the need for improvements and maintenance to the existing infrastructure and to increase security at our nation’s borders and improve safety measures along the corridor.” Bray says there’s no money to go toward a construction project of this magnitude.

Curiouser and curiouser, since here's the link to the NASCO website, where you can see a huge map of the US, Mexico and Canada -- with the proposed highway sketched out. Also -- it's kind of an odd name for a "watchdog" group. And, according to the website: North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.

That's not a "watchdog group" goal, either, although Tiffany Melville is certainly the gal to contact as listed on the site, and she has a Dallas phone number ... 214.744.1042 (Direct) tiffany@nascocorridor.com ....

Either there's a massive hoax going on, or somebody needs to check their source.

At any rate -- would a super-corridor be a bad thing? Oh, I dunno ... it'd be great, as long as the world's at peace, and assuming we can actually trust our allies ..... when h3ll freezes over, and the iced brimstone lakes get paved into roads for trucks full of lettuce, tomatoes, and happy hard-working illegals to roll into America ...

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