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U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in the valley discussing future interstate plans.
Senator Hutchison met with the U.S. 77 and U.S. 281 coalitions in McAllen to discuss plans to expand the i-69 corridor. In march 2008, Sen. Hutchison expressed serious concerns over the Texas department of transportations plan to utilize eminent domain for new routes in the construction of i-69 and how that would affect private property rights, businesses, and agricultural land.
Eminent domain got scrapped and for a while many legislators believed that the interstate corridor was history as well, but it is well and alive.
In addition to discussing plans for the I-69 corridor, Sen. Hutchison outlined her efforts to prohibit tolling on federal highways. In response to renewed calls for tolling on Texas roads, Sen. Hutchison introduced a bill on May 21 that would prevent states, private entities, or private-public partnerships from adding tolls on existing free federal highways, bridges, or tunnels built with federal funding.