Have the transportation areas around your city started sprouting corridors? The US is becoming a country of highways (Corridors) connected to rivers, rail lines and airports. This is called intermodal transportation. Does the government think the US populace will live in a continual roaming mode so they are constructing travel linkages just for us? No, plans call for US citizens to be relegated to light rail and bus.

NAFTA/GATT and the UN will be using this new infrastructure to flood us with thousands of cheap labor made goods, a further upset to our economic base.

Congress passed the NAFTA agreement (later identified properly as a treaty) over the objections from 80% of the people. We weren’t told about the drastic INTERNAL changes in the US that would need to take place as a result of NAFTA.

A National Corridor Planning and Development Program is being instituted. Your government at work using your money to construct a 12 lane, 4 mile wide NAFTA/GATT International Highway extending from Mexico to Canada. Running from north to south through America’s heartland, the International Highway divides the US in half. Besides a rail line running parallel to it, a spider web of 43 International Trade Corridors will connect to the main arteries covering all 50 states. These transportation lanes, built on our soil, are under construction controlled by the UN on behalf of the World Trade Organization.

US taxpayers won’t be receiving the benefits from paying for this Highway of all highways, but China and Mexico will. Thousands of their containers will be the most frequent users of this commercial import route.

Chambers of Commerce, private funds, local, state, federal agencies, and multitudes of various groupings are all contributing enthusiasm and money for this project. Some of our highways will be turned into toll roads and this tax will also go to facilitate construction for foreign transports. We will be paying to travel on our own roads!

How did this all cone about?

Congress overwhelmingly endorsed the largest public works bill in US history, the Transportation Equity Act, TEA-21. In the House the vote was passed by 297 to 86 with 50 abstentions. The Senate passed the bill with a vote of 88 to 5 with 7 Senators not voting. Thus our Congress laid the ground -work using US territory to subsidize foreign trade at the expense of our own industries.

The Department of Transportation (Dot) 1998 Equity Act, TEA-21 started the federal surface transportation project resulting in the NAFTA/GATT Highway. This allowed selected states to establish tolls on interstate facilities and highways. A total of 43 Corridors (the spider web) beside the Superhighway were given "high priority" status. Billions of dollars will be poured into the numerous needs for this system.

NOW we are told, this is necessary for the full implementation of NAFTA.

Some of the legislators who helped hasten the financing for the Super Highway: Senators John Chafee, John Warner, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Kit Bond, Bob Graham, and Slade Gorton.

It is estimated that 280,000 trucks a day, belching pollutants, will be using the NAFTA Highway. To comply with the Clean Air Act, US Senator Bond introduced legislation to repeal a provision of this Act for highways so the dirty air caused by the heavy NAFTA traffic won’t result in fines for states that don’t meet the smog standards.

California incubates the problems other states will encounter at a later date. The 2.4 billion Alameda Corridor was started more than 15 years ago. It links the ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and the transcontinental rail yards of Los Angeles. This enterprise is among the largest public infrastructure projects in the US. A perfect NAFTA intermodal design with airport and trucking facilities near by.

Alameda Corridor workers are hired according to US equal opportunity and diversity laws (also espoused by the UN). Welfare recipients are hires as well for this project that is part of the government "Welfare to Work" program.

Despite the politically correct job regulations, problems arose when Blacks charged they were underemployed on the construction sites. Adverse effects and environmental concerns resulting from the establishment of the Corridor prompted some California towns to sue.

Multiply this by the thousands as the NAFTA/GATT bulldozer confiscates property and disrupts lives all over the nation.

Cities in southern California are bracing for a dramatic increase generated by the growing importation of goods from the Pacific Rim. US customers are the engine that powers the outlet for third world exports. Other states and Canada beware! Remember foreign containers (some from unfriendly nations) using rail, truck, and air transportation are heading your way on the Super Intermodal Highway. California hasn’t checked their contents!

Nancy Culver Thomson, 8/25/2000