State ends Trans-Texas Corridor project

AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Transportation has ended the Trans-Texas Corridor, Gov. Rick Perry’s embattled plan to build a toll-road network across the state.

The agency said earlier this year it was scaling down the project and dropping the name “Trans-Texas Corridor.” Now, transportation officials say it’s dead. Transportation Commissioner Bill Meadows told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of the decision in a report posted online Tuesday.

The news comes a day after Perry’s Republican primary opponent, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, secured the coveted endorsement of the powerful Texas Farm Bureau – a vocal opponent of the corridor and a group that has been at odds with Perry over eminent domain and private property rights. Farmers and ranchers did not like the corridor plan because of the private land it threatened to take.

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