Yippie! No more highway coming through my livingroom!

For those of you that have been reading the French Lique,Texas blog from the beginning, you know that I started this blog based upon the premise that the State of Texas was going to enforce Imminent Domain and put a super highway through my living room... okay, well, they were going to force us to sell our land and home to the state to make way for the aforementioned super highway. Not only our little piece of the world, but thousands of farm and ranch acreage from far North Texas, all the way south to the Valley at the Mexico border.

An official made the profoundly stupid statement, at a public meeting no less, that it was land that "nobody used anyway". Yep, he was a city slicker, and a dumb city slicker at that... The fine people that owned, farmed, ranched and otherwise "used" that land were up in arms... we fought, and now, we've won! The following was a news piece from Real Current Events in Austin, Texas...

Trans-Texas Corridor Plans to Be Scrapped, Redesigned

Texas state officials announced Tuesday that plans for the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor have been canceled.

The superhighway would have been a mile wide toll-road, with profits going to a private company in Spain.

“The days of the Trans-Texas Corridor are over, it’s finished up,” said Texas Governor Rick Perry, who promoted the highway which has been associated by some with alleged plans for a North American Union.

The corridor will not take shape as originally envisioned, but instead has been redesigned into a scaled-down version. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, larger corridor projects will consist of smaller segments that are about 600 feet wide.

Celebrating a win for the people and the cowboys down here in French Lique!
(Now this is truly "BLISS")