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57-488: The network, as originally envisioned, would have been composed of a 4,000-mile (6,400 km) network of supercorridors up to 1,200 feet (370 m) wide to carry parallel links of tollways , rails , and utility lines. It was intended to route long-distance traffic around population centers, and to provide stable corridors for future infrastructure improvements–such as new power lines from wind farms in West Texas to

114-531: A Red River steamboat named The Texarkana , c.  1860 . A third account relates that a storekeeper named Swindle in Red Land, Louisiana, concocted a drink called "Texarkana Bitters". Texarkana is located at the junction of Interstate 30 and US highways 59 , 67 , 71 and 82 in extreme northeastern Texas on the Texas-Arkansas border. It is bordered by the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, to

171-474: A community college . Texarkana Regional Airport is located in Texarkana, Arkansas, and serves general aviation and American Eagle service to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport . Texarkana Union Station is located in downtown Texarkana along the state line, with Amtrak 's Texas Eagle providing daily service east to Chicago and west to San Antonio , continuing on to Los Angeles three days

228-662: A Trans Texas Corridor implementation plan in 90 days." In spite of public complaints–and both the 2006 platforms of the Texas Republican and Democratic parties opposing the plan–Governor Rick Perry continued to support the TTC. Among the opponents to the corridor was the Republican State Representative Lois Kolkhorst of Washington County , who opposed on the basis that the project would undermine private property rights. In

285-618: A combined population of 65,580 in the 2020 decennial census, and the metropolitan area had a population of 149,482. Railroads were quick to see the possibilities of connecting markets in this vast area. In the late 1850s, the builders of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad were pushing their line steadily south across Arkansas. By 1874, they crossed the Red River and reached the Texas state line. Between February 16 and March 19, 1874, trains ran between

342-490: A comprehensive development agreement which authorized $ 3.5 million of planning for TTC-35. This agreement did not designate the alignment, authorize construction, set toll rates or who collects them, and did not eliminate competition for future services. There were no contracts awarded to develop or finance any other corridor. There were two initial trans-Texas corridors under consideration: One would have paralleled Interstate 35 (I-35), from Gainesville to Laredo and passing

399-414: A household in the city was $ 29,727, and for a family was $ 39,119. Males had a median income of $ 34,155 versus $ 21,143 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 17,815. About 19.4% of families and 24.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 34.8% of those under age 18 and 13.2% of those age 65 or over. The most affluent area of Texarkana is Pleasant Grove, where the median income

456-573: A new terrain corridor along the northern Texas border paralleling sections of Interstate 30 from the Arkansas line at Texarkana to Fort Worth , US-287 from Fort Worth to Amarillo , and Interstate 40 from Amarillo to New Mexico . One component of TTC-69 could have been part of a freight corridor that stretched from ports on the Pacific coast of Mexico to the Great Lakes . Depending on

513-515: A partnership between Spanish-based toll-road developer/operator ACS and Texas-based Zachry Construction, was awarded a $ 3.5 million contract to help plan the entire TTC-35 route in March 2005. The study area for Trans-Texas Corridor-35 (TTC-35) generally followed Interstate 35 from Laredo to the Oklahoma border. The environmental study for the project proceeded in two tiers: a first tier that refined

570-461: A town hall with a seating capacity of 100. David Stall, a city manager, and Linda Stall, an escrow officer of a Texas title company, founded CorridorWatch.org to lead the building of a network of people who worked together to defeat the construction project. The Motorcycle Riders Caucus, active within both the Democratic and Republican parties, was categorically opposed to toll roads, and they were

627-465: A week with intermediate points. The Texarkana Urban Transit District provides bus transportation to major areas of town along nine different routes. Service runs from 5:30 am to 6:20 pm Monday–Saturday. Intercity bus service to the city is provided by Jefferson Lines . Interstate 30 passes through Texarkana on the north. Loop 151 on the west of the city forms part of the Texarkana Loop ,

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684-615: Is $ 49,562 for each household and the median for a family is $ 57,219 in 2013. According to the city's 2021 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, the top employers in the Texarkana Metropolitan Statistical Area, are: According to the city's most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report Fund Financial Statements, the city's various funds had $ 36.0 million in revenues, $ 37.0 million in expenditures, $ 18.9 million in total assets, $ 3.5 million in total liabilities, and $ 7.2 million in investments. Though

741-502: Is a 3:1 ratio between total fees collected and value of capital infrastructure built. With TTC-35 the ratio was in the order of magnitude of 13:1. So while TTC-35 committed to construct $ 8 billion in infrastructure ACS-Zachry expected to collect $ 114 billion in toll revenues as shown in the preliminary plan. A report by the Texas State Auditor estimated the toll to be collected for TTC-35 to be $ 104 billion or more, confirming

798-635: Is a city in Bowie County, Texas , United States, in the Ark-La-Tex region. Located approximately 180 miles (290 km) from Dallas , Texarkana is a twin city with neighboring Texarkana, Arkansas . The Texas city's population was 36,193 at the 2020 census. The city and its Arkansas counterpart form the core of the Texarkana metropolitan statistical area , encompassing all of Bowie County, Texas, and Miller County, Arkansas . The two cities had

855-575: Is located downtown in the Bi-State Justice Building. At the federal level, the two U.S. senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz ; since a remap in 2022, the city of Texarkana is part of Texas's 1st congressional district , which is currently represented by Republican Nathaniel Moran . Much of the rest of Bowie County is in the Texas's 4th congressional district . The Federal Courthouse (which also holds

912-686: The Houston Chronicle , on January 6, 2009, "In response to public outcry, the ambitious proposal to create the Trans-Texas Corridor network has been dropped and will be replaced with a plan to carry out road projects at an incremental, modest pace". The network was proposed to include separate lanes for passenger and truck traffic, freight and high-speed commuter railways, and infrastructure for utilities, including water , oil , and gas pipelines; electricity ; along with broadband and other telecommunications services. Although

969-492: The Austin metropolitan area as an eastern relief route for Interstate 35. On June 28, 2006, ACS-Zachry reached a $ 1.3 billion agreement with the state to build segments 5 and 6 of SH 130, which could have represented the alignment of TTC-35's highway component between Interstate 10 at Seguin east of San Antonio and U.S. Route 79 near Taylor, Texas . According to the "Facility Plan of Finance," $ 412 million of financing for

1026-702: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex , Austin and San Antonio . The other would have been an extension of the proposed I-69 corridor, generally following US 59 , from Texarkana past Houston to either Laredo or the Rio Grande Valley . Both of these corridors have seen large increases in freight traffic demand over the past two decades due to increased trade with Mexico. Two additional high priority potential corridors would have paralleled Interstate 45 from Dallas to Houston and Interstate 10 from El Paso to Orange . ACS - Zachry ,

1083-545: The 2010 gubernatorial elections, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison ran several attack advertisements regarding the TTC as Perry's attempts to expand government and take land from the average Texan. Ultimately, the advertisements did not have a great effect as Hutchison bowed out following her loss in the Republican primary. To help pay for building the roads and rails, the highways would have been partially financed through private investment. The investors would have then operated

1140-733: The I-69 corridor near Laredo and Corpus Christi known as the "Port to Port Corridor". Texas' portion of I-69 was originally planned to be developed as a traditional Interstate highway (with a mixed-use freeway component only), as it is being developed in other states, but was rolled into the Trans Texas Corridor concept soon after the latter's announcement due to their substantial overlap in purpose and scope. However, on June 11, 2008, TxDOT announced they planned to limit further study of I-69 to existing highway corridors–U.S. 59, U.S. 77, U.S. 281, U.S. 84, and SH 44–outside transition zones in

1197-603: The I-69 route. According to the Deep East Texas Council of Governments, I-69 is a "future NAFTA Superhighway ". It will enter the U.S. from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas . Texas officials identified several other possible TTC corridors in the long-range plan. Interstate 10 through the southern part of the state, Interstate 20 from east of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to I-10 near Midland , along an extended Interstate 27 through western Texas, and

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1254-578: The North American Union, and the Threat of a Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada . In 2002, the TTC was estimated to cost between US$ 145.2 billion to $ 183.5 billion to complete the entire 4,000-mile (6,400 km) network. Some criticisms have focused on the enormous width of the corridors. The planned system, if built out to its fullest extent, could have required about 584,000 acres (2,360 km) of land to be purchased or acquired through

1311-518: The Texas border and the Red River, whence passengers and freight were ferried north to Fulton, Arkansas to continue by rail. The Red River Bridge opened on March 20, 1874. Since then, trains have run directly from Texarkana to St. Louis , Missouri. Keen rivalry existed between the 1870s railroad builders. The Texas and Pacific Railroad reached across Texas to the Arkansas state line. The border

1368-427: The area including Wagner Creek , Cowhorn Creek , Swampoodle Creek and Days Creek . On May 22, 2008, a microburst producing winds up to 100 mph occurred over Stateline Avenue and surrounding communities. An analysis of radar data leading up to the damage showed that two severe thunderstorms came together on the south side of the city. One severe storm was moving northeastward from southern Bowie County, while

1425-607: The cargo at these inland ports. No such supercorridors exist. The US State of Texas proposed the Trans-Texas Corridor in 2001 and eventually killed the project in 2011 before any of the project had been constructed. The Texas Department of Transportation concluded that it was more economical to route the transportation and utility corridors separately. The State of Washington studied a supercorridor commonly called Interstate 605 in 2003, but took no action. The North American SuperCorridor Coalition advocates for

1482-520: The cities in the east–without the otherwise often lengthy administrative and legal procedures required to build on privately owned land. The tollway portion would have been divided into two separate elements: truck lanes and lanes for passenger vehicles. Similarly, the rail lines in the corridor would have been divided among freight , commuter , and high-speed rail . The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) intended to "charge public and private concerns for utility, commodity or data transmission" within

1539-573: The city was historically Democratic , Texarkana is currently represented by Republicans in both houses of the Texas State Legislature . The state senator is Bryan Hughes from District 1. State Representative Gary VanDeaver represents Texas House District 1. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates the Texarkana District Parole Office in Texarkana. The Texas Sixth Court of Appeals

1596-460: The city. The population density was 1,228.13 inhabitants per square mile (474.18/km ). The 16,270 housing units averaged 589.4 per square mile (227.5/km ). Of the 16,280 households, 31.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.5% were married couples living together, 19.3% had a female householder with no husband present. and 34.1% were not families; 29.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.1% had someone living alone who

1653-509: The construction of several such corridors through the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Critics of supercorridors complain that existing transportation infrastructure is not being invested in and maintained. Other critics are concerned about the environmental damage which might occur by creating a supercorridor. Still others are concerned about issues of national and state sovereignty, and the possible increased danger of terrorism , in

1710-580: The corridor (freight and passenger rail, truck lanes, and passenger lanes) if they are colocated and built to full capacity. According to TxDOT documents released in June 2002, "Governor Rick Perry wrote Transportation Commission Chairman John W. Johnson on January 30, 2002 to outline his vision for the Trans Texas Corridor. The governor asked the three-member commission to assemble the Texas Department of Transportation’s top talent to create and deliver

1767-666: The corridor would join I-35 to run south to Laredo. On October 7, 2009, TxDOT officials announced that the department would recommend the "No Action Alternative", which effectively ended the efforts to develop the Interstate 35 corridor through the TTC concept. State Highway 130 is a component of the Central Texas Turnpike System , much of which was thought likely to be incorporated into TTC-35. Segments 1-4 of SH 130 were built by Lone Star Infrastructure in

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1824-534: The corridor, in essence making a toll road for services such as water , electricity , natural gas , petroleum , fiber optic lines , and other telecommunications services. The network would have been funded by private investors and built and expanded as demand warrants. In 2009, TxDOT decided to phase out the all-in-one corridor concept in favor of developing separate rights-of-way for road, rail, and other infrastructure using more traditional corridor widths for those modes. In 2010, official decision of "no action"

1881-410: The current I-35 alignment until curving off to the east at a point south of San Antonio or would have followed a more direct route to the east. The study area for all alternatives continued northeast, paralleling I-35. The second variation would have either passed just to the east of the municipal boundaries along I-35 from Austin to Temple or further east. The third variation would have passed either to

1938-524: The downtown post office ) is located directly on the Arkansas-Texas state line and is the only federal office building to straddle a state line. During his campaign for the presidency, John F. Kennedy spoke on the steps of the courthouse September 13, 1960, and so did President Jimmy Carter , on October 22, 1980. The Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana , is a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility in unincorporated Bowie County just outside

1995-605: The east, and by the smaller cities of Nash , Wake Village and Liberty Eylau , Texas to the west. It is in the Central Time Zone . According to the United States Census Bureau , the Texas city has a total area of 29.5 square miles (76.3 km ), of which 29.0 square miles (75.2 km ) is land and 0.42 square miles (1.1 km ), or 1.39%, is covered by water. The city is roughly 180 miles northeast of Dallas . Several creeks run through

2052-519: The highways as toll roads . Based on The ACS-Zachry Preliminary Financial Plan (TTC-35 Development Agreement, Exhibit C) funding the TTC-35 Corridor awarded to ACS-Zachry showed that 22%(1) of the initial infrastructure costs were shown to be funded with equity provided by ACS-Zachry. The other 78% was to be provided by bank loans or bonds arranged by ACS-Zachry. Based on then-current federal regulations these bonds could have been tax-exempt. It

2109-555: The level of traffic on that route, opponents argued that it would draw shipping traffic away from U.S. ports in California ( San Diego , Long Beach and Los Angeles ) in favor of Mexican seaports. A citizens uprising was started in 2003 by Linda and David Stall of Fayette County, after reading a small notice in a trade paper about a hearing to be held by TxDOT in their rural town of Fayetteville, Texas . The Stalls notified their friends and neighbors. Eight hundred people showed up to

2166-434: The lower Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Houston, and Texarkana. TxDOT also announced it was reverting to building I-69 as a standard 4-lane freeway instead of a multi-modal corridor as previously envisioned under the Trans-Texas Corridor concept. The latest plan called for adding a second carriageway and eliminating at-grade intersections along US-59 and US-77 in rural areas, with tolled bypasses around major cities and towns along

2223-705: The model corridor design incorporates all of these elements running in parallel within a shared right-of-way, more recent plans suggested that existing rail and road corridors could be used for some components of the TTC. The model corridor design also represented the ultimate build-out of a corridor section, which would not have been realized for decades, if at all, as corridor segments and components were planned to be built based on traffic demand. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) attempted to provide oversight for planning, construction, and maintenance while day-to-day operations would have been performed by private companies. In March 2005, TxDOT and ACS - Zachry signed

2280-515: The most powerful caucus in Texas. Its chair Sputnik helped to develop Stall's network into an immense, diverse coalition of voters opposed to the corridor. As lobbyist for the Texas Motorcycle Rights Association, Sputnik convinced many state legislators to vote against it. American author and conservative activist Jerome Corsi vehemently opposed the corridor and wrote a book titled The Late Great USA: NAFTA,

2337-474: The name's origin differ, and it had been in use some time before the town was founded. The most popular tradition is that when the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway was building its line through the area, Col. Gus Knobel, a railroad surveyor, coined the name. He is said to have painted it on a plank and nailed it to a tree, saying "This is the name of a town which is to be built here." Another story tells of

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2394-493: The order of magnitude of tolls collected. Supercorridor A supercorridor is a proposed new type of transportation infrastructure in the United States . A supercorridor would use swaths of land up to 1,200 feet (370 m) wide to carry parallel links of freeways , rails, and utility lines . The freeway portions would be divided into two separate elements: truck lanes and lanes for passenger vehicles. Similarly,

2451-500: The other was moving northwestward through Miller County. Both storms collided in an area just south of downtown Texarkana. On May 16, 2020, a waterspout tornado formed in adjacent Lake Wright Patman . On December 31, 2021, a rare weather phenomenon called "animal rain" caused fish to fall out of the sky and land in pedestrian's yards, sidewalks and business lots. According to the 2020 United States census , there were 36,193 people, 14,148 households, and 8,767 families residing in

2508-594: The project would be a federally-guaranteed loan under the Transportation Infrastructure Financing and Innovation Act, while the remaining financing would be from equity put forward by ACS-Zachry and bank loans from private lenders. Per the agreement, TxDOT would receive between 4.65% and 50% of toll revenues depending on the performance of the facility, with a smaller share due to TxDOT if TxDOT does not authorize posting of daytime speed limits of 80 mph (130 km/h) or higher along

2565-437: The rail lines in the corridor would be divided among freight, commuter, and high-speed rail . Services expected to be carried in the utility corridor include water , electricity , natural gas and petroleum , plus fiber optic lines and other telecommunications services. Supercorridors bypass traditional national borders , instead using inland ports known as "smartports". Border guards and customs officers would check

2622-471: The rapid transfer of individuals, goods and materials across borders . The study of Interstate 605 found that the corridor would be expensive and more than half of its length would not be economically feasible. Acquisition of large swaths of land for such corridors has created questions about property rights and the use of eminent domain . This road-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Texarkana, Texas Texarkana

2679-404: The route of US 59 from Laredo via Houston to Carthage ; there, the national I-69 corridor would have continued northeast into Louisiana and a spur route north to Texarkana would have continued along US 59 to Interstate 30 . The original national plan for I-69 also included two spur routes to the Rio Grande Valley following US 281 and US 77 ; Texas was also studying a connection between

2736-464: The route. The ACS-Zachry Preliminary Financial Plan showed the expected toll revenue to be collected for Segment 5 and 6 at $ 14.9 billion over 50 years. The Preliminary Financial Plan for Segment 5 and 6 also showed $ 12.4 billion in earnings before taxes for the developer. The second priority corridor for development was the Interstate 69 extension through Texas, which would have roughly followed

2793-683: The southwest border of the city. Schools in Texarkana, Texas, are under the jurisdiction of the Texarkana Independent School District , the Liberty-Eylau Independent School District , Pleasant Grove Independent School District , and Red Lick Independent School District . Texarkana is home to Texas A&M University–Texarkana , a four-year branch of the Texas A&;M University System , and to Texarkana College ,

2850-429: The state's assertion of eminent domain . Environmentalists were concerned about the effects of such wide corridors and private land owners have expressed concerns about property rights. Opponents also alleged that noise from the TTC would be of such a high volume that it would render the area within one mile (1.6 km) of the corridor uninhabitable by humans, at least during periods of peak traffic on all components of

2907-401: The study area to a 10-mile (16 km) wide study corridor and a second tier that selected particular alignments for the various corridor components; where all corridor components (rail, highway, and utilities) were planned to be built adjacent to one another, this corridor would have been approximately 1,200 feet (370 m) wide. The TTC-35 Tier 1 draft environmental impact statement (EIS)

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2964-479: The west of Fort Worth or east of Dallas. The fourth variation was dependent on the eastern third variation and would have either rejoined the western third variation near the Oklahoma border or would have ended at the Oklahoma border near U.S. Route 75 . The draft EIS designated a recommended preferred alternative corridor running to the east of I-35 and I-35E from near Gainesville to south of San Antonio , where

3021-457: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 3.01. In the city, the age distribution of the population was 26.0% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 20.7% from 45 to 64, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.4 males. The median income for

3078-532: Was also noted in the financial plan that ACS-Zachry expected to have 12% return on investment for their equity partners. The 12% return was after taxes, which would have been approximately equivalent to 16% before taxes. The plan called for paying off the bank loans and the bonds prior to retiring the equity as shown in cash flow diagrams of the Preliminary Financial Plan (TTC-35 Development Agreement, Exhibit C). With usual bond financing there

3135-594: Was issued by the Federal Highway Administration, formally ending the project. The action eliminated the study area and canceled the agreement between TxDOT and ACS - Zachry . In 2011, the Texas Legislature formally canceled the Trans-Texas Corridor with the passage of HB 1201. The TTC was hoped to be a multi-use, statewide system that would have included new and existing highways, railways, and utility rights-of-way . According to

3192-550: Was published in April 2006. The final EIS was expected originally to be submitted to the Federal Highway Administration in 2007; as of April 2008, preparation of the final EIS was listed as "ongoing." The draft EIS included 12 different study corridor alternatives by choosing among four variations along the route. The first variation, from Laredo to southeast of San Antonio, would have included either

3249-489: Was the logical place for the different railways to connect. On December 8, 1873, the Texas and Pacific sold the first town lots for the future city. The first buyer was J. W. Davis, who purchased the land where today's Hotel McCartney now stands on the Texas side of the border, opposite Union Station which is split between both the Arkansas and Texas border. The name Texarkana is known to be a portmanteau of Tex as , Ark ansas , and nearby Louisi ana . However, accounts of

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