Last summer I found out about the NASCO superhighway for the first time. The idea inspired me to research it further and I found out it was part of the plan to create a North American Union.
At that time I was involved in some local grassroots historic preservation efforts here in New York and I thought it would be interesting to document the places that are in the NASCO corridor’s path of destruction.
I went to Texas last summer to document the town of Laredo, the future breaking ground of the superhighway. I had a friend who lived at a ranch not too far away and I stayed at his place. I had also gone to one of the TTC meetings shown by its organizer. The Trans-Texas Corridor is the first part of the NASCO superhighway and it runs from Laredo, Texas to the border of Oklahoma. After documenting Laredo and interviewing DOT officials I had put together the following video.
Laredo looked almost like Mexico. Lots of small, shack-like houses. At the base of the bridge that runs across the Rio Grande a man was trying to cross the river to get to the US but he was caught right away. Some parts of Laredo were a little more charming, with nice architecture and that small-town quality.
After the TTC runs through this town, it will be turned into something else completely. Same goes for all the land that is in the proposed path of the TTC.
At the meeting in Corpus Christi which was pretty much a propaganda show for the developers, there was a 30 minute presentation about why Texas needs this highway so much. I interviewed one of the TTC officials who basically admitted that this plan is just a step towards making the NASCO superhighway. Another DOT official told me that this is mostly for freight trucks and not really for auto’s. So I guess their aim is not really to make Mexico a new vacation destination for drivers.