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The plan calls for corridor proj ects crisscrossing the state with separate highway lanes for pas senger vehicles and trucks, pas senger rail, freight rail and dedi cated utility zones. The state is “moving way too fast. I don’t think the general pub lic is aware of all the information they need to know and whether or not this is good for all areas,” Cook said in Sunday’s editions of the San Antonio Express-News. David and Linda Stall of Fayetteville, near La Grange, agree. They attended the GOP convention last month and won approval of a platform plank that calls for the repeal of a 2003 law authorizing the Texas Department of Transportation to proceed. The Stalls in February founded Corridor Watch, which opposes using could profit from buildinoj managing projects. Some residents who attended TxDOT public ings on the plan also haver questions about the scopeofj project. TxDOT engineers at „ hearings, where reskM^ sketched desired routes, said! • 011 ' 1 tie is settled. Bis runn The first project ™iiM 3U ' ern parallel to Interstate 35. 1 1 } P es °f vendors are competing to l! lt0 and manage the 1-35 corrido! winner could be determined l lst erou early next year. The agency also focus on the Interstate 69ca dor from Texarkana are. Houston, with links to Coi Christi and Laredo. In La Grail the Dei trust tl to iled the -e ses “Ke u I don't think the general public is aware of all the information they need to know and whether or not this is good for all areas. — Robby Cook state representative near Interstate! hundreds ofij dents questio a contempl east-west cos dor. The Fad C o u n Commission i in May thei dor “ would t lively affect i Texas, farms and i uproot will have a nd impact on local edf and would ( pollution transportation projects to gener ate state funds, converting high ways to toll roads or granting vendors control of public land or infrastructure, which are ele ments of the corridor strategy. “It’s just wrong. I don’t care what your political affiliation is,” said David Stall, expressing doubts about granting 30-year concessions to vendors who trash.” County Judge Ed land: Democrat, called the | joke” due to possible mile land takings, addingtlii| doubted it would relieve cod lion in cities. “Somebody might be aM go Houston or San faster (but) it’s of no benefil| the county whatsoever,”hei “It takes a lot of land offthel base. It’s just an incursion." Woman drowns on Guadalup Flo (AP) A woman has drowned while tubing in Texas at Texas woman is presumed drowned in a tubing accidentij California Gwendolyn Elizabeth Moore Wardlaw, 54, of Center Po; drowned on the Guadalupe River in Kerr County on Saturdifl when her tube became caught in a culvert of a low-water crossS' 1 ^ u, ° v near Center Point, the Kerrville Daily Times reported Monday. I 565 C1 “The river flow is way above normal,” Steve Backor,aga®|| warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, tol newspaper. He said a large amount of debris had built up i the low-water crossing and created a whirlpool. Two others tubing with the woman made it safely throughi! culverts under Government Crossing. Meanwhile, Eunice Alvarado, 25, of Dallas is presume | drowned after her tube struck a rock and capsized on lit •? Sacramento River, police said Monday. Alvarado fell offhertui* i Sunday evening in a dangerous part of the river near Chines § Rapids, according to a news release from the Tehama Con* lor the p; Sheriff’s Department. Bie Unite Authorities searched for Alvarado Sunday night and Mondalmega, a r using two boats and a California Highway Patrol helicopter, pod drive Alvarado and her brother were tubing together at the tmid will be of the accident. He made it to safety, but was unable to sa'^The Ame his sister. 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