You got me, Chuck. Top 5% of my class at Baylor U., MBA, and JD. Now blessed by the Lord in a great job and a great family. I am lucky not to have to live out my life online.

Robert Welch called it 52 years ago! The insiders' plan to destroy America with Big Gov! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4

Actually, we all the worst cities are the ones with pro-Black majority agendas at all costs. Compton, "Katrina," Detroit. Etc etc. So, let's not pretend like Black hoods are TRULY a problem, all "racism" aside. It is what it is. In fact, Detroit is so bad now that even its Black mayor has proposed BULLDOZING its slums over! Seriously, no joke folks! http://www.businessinsider.com/the-mayor-of-detroits-radical-plan-to-bulldoze-one-quarter-of-the-city-2010-3

Read all the comments. Then note how many are outright racist or have racial overtones. I can list numerous towns and cities with similar attitudes about the old way (Jim Crow and only enough Hispanics to do the work for construction contractors) and they are all dead or dying.

B.T.: Based on your comments, your occupation must not be very prestigious, or you went to some third rate school and stumbled upon a job. I wouldn't be asking what other people do for a living if I were you. I bet they actually have real professional degrees and work for a living, unlike you.

Wacko isn't going to grow except by default due to rural areas may start shrinking due to NO JOBS special thanks to Achmed Pelosi, Dingy Harry and Illegal Alien Obama! Shortage of ground water will also push rural residents in the Wacko area to move in the city. - California is bankrupt and so Pelosi NEEDS a Federal healthcare system to bailout all the illegales and uninsured Black welfare cases in her state. That's why she's pushing so hard for it - her goal is to rob the other 49 states to pay for hers.

I nver agree with Harley. Never as I consider him so far left he is not on the field. But for once we have something in common on toll roads. Rick Perry and his cronies are at it again. It is the same thing with Clinton. Just flat out crooked

I never ever agree with radical Harley. Except this deal on toll roads. This is what you get with Perry and his cronies. Kinda like agreeing with Clinton. You get all of his antics and Monica

Put an I-35 business lane through East Waco. Bulldoze it and kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Cut crime AND traffic in half!

Lisa Fay - Are you kidding me? Ever drive near East Waco or through any of the central Waco hoods here? It's not hard to tell that an 80s-model Lincoln driven by a single mama with 2-5 kids inside is uninsured.

I seriously doubt uninsured motorists are the problem. Drive down the road and see if you can pick them out. (You can't.) I'm mostly concerned with why Waco wasn't represented at this meeting. Waco should be the capital of Texas with it's history and location. There are forces here trying to keep it small. They should be fighting to make Waco the hub.

I agree. Get all the uninsured motorists off the road. That will also lower insurance costs by preventing all the wrecks they cause as well. Why can't the WPD simply enforce the law like they're supposed to?

Rodney is right. What better evidence is there than visible proof. Waco has always tried, successfully to protect and maintain the status quo. I can remember at least sixty years of it and I can and do read. So many people are in denial and so many are so racist and ignorant that they only believe in Rush and Fox (and the Trib.). Most uninsured drivers work, but they can't afford insurance of any kind, auto., health or life (and they are not all minorities). The answer for Perry is to dump them and build roadways that add even more to automobile ownership...tolls paid to private contractors. Toll roads will reduce traffic in Waco if Perry's dream comes true. I know one less vehicle will be on toll roads...mine. I will drive ten miles or more to get around toll roads. Use the money the governor said (during the campaign) that is in reserve and stop paying it out to contractors who never seem to complete a job. The construction from Hillsboro to Abbott began about 18 years ago. Drive up and check it out...if you dare risk your life.

Traffic can flow at 75-80mph in going towards Dallas, Austin. Flows smoothly at 75-80mph on I45 going to Houston. It seems to only be Waco where traffic does not flow smoothly. It's as if the majority of drivers think they are driving on Valley Mills Dr or something, when in fact they are on an interstate. I don't think more lanes will solve problems here. I think it't a mental issue in this area of Texas. Rodney, just read your comments @ 9:24am. Waco does seem like a place that does not want to grow, move forward or prosper. Nothing major here. Nothing at all. We all have seen what Baylor has managed to do in over 100 years...Nothing.

Get the 22% of Texas un-insured motorist off the roads and won't need change anything. 1 in 5 cars gone.

HOW ABOUT HAVING TRUCKS THRU WACO ONLY IN THE RIGHT LANE?? THE TRUCKS ARE WHAT CAUSES THE CONGESTION, LINED UP THREE IN A ROW.

There's a solution for traffic in Waco. It's called a loop. Unlike the "loop" here that is merely an extension of Hwy. 6. A loop should be an express route around a city, not a two lane divided road, mostly unfinished (Hwy. 6 to I-35N section towards Bellmead). Maybe if they build a loop, Waco will go ahead and shrivel up and disappear.

B.T., it isn't made up except for the interesting part about the time machine. 1) Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco. Where did it disappear to? Dallas. 2) TCU was located in Waco until the campus burned down in 1914. Where did it go to? Fort Worth. 3) Rumor was Miller Brewing Company was building a brewery in Waco. What happened? Look to your right as you enter Fort Worth from I-35. 4) Why did Mrs. Bairds stop baking bread in Waco. Look to your right as you enter Fort Worth from I-35 just before you get to the Miller Brewing Company. 5) Both Waco and Austin (Waterloo) were under consideration for the State Capital. Where is it? Austin. 6) What happened to the great architects and designers who built Waco? Most of them moved to Dallas, New York City, or elsewhere to further their careers. 7) Where did the railroad build their yards? Temple and Hearne. Waco could not even get a rail line through here for the longest time. The list goes on and on. From 1900 to 1935 there were a lot of building fires in Waco. Not houses, buildings. There was a young man who ran for city council not too many years ago. In his campaign, he stated that Waco has squandered opportunity after opportunity to grow and move foward. He was not elected, but he was right.

People you get wat you vote for. You voted for Perry and that is what you get, toll roads and more toll road. Ts Dot lost a billion in a budget and Perry still got voted for. Plus this Bullet train idea sucks. We are broke as a state and country and this will put us in futher in debt. This idea was tried before and it will not work. It is a bottomless money hole

Greene, you're exactly right! Perry took the bribe money at the beginning of the TTC crap, so we can be assured it's GOING to be brought back, probably using a new name. Debra Medina was the only one of the three who would have done what's right for the people, and the people were too d@mn stupid to elect her in the primary.

You can bet that if Perry is elected to a third term, the Trans-Texas Corridor will rise from its shallow grave and walk again, like the destructive vampire it is.

1. Rodney, what do you do for a living? 2. How do you make this stuff up with no evidence to even reasonably support your assumptions? 3. When did you go off your medication?

I find it interesting that we are hearing a lot of what Temple has to say and nothing about what Waco has to say. I guess this is "transparency" at work here. People wonder why Waco never grew up. Well, they have a long, long history of capitulation to Dallas, then Fort Worth, then Austin, and now Temple-Killeen. In retrospect, if it had not been for the Suspension Bridge and cotton, I doubt Waco would have ever grown much if at all. If I had a time machine, I would go back to the time between 1900 to 1935 to see if citizens' attitudes today are that much different from what it was in the past. Personally, I am convinced that there was a serial arsonist on the lose during that timeframe. The Cotton Palace did not burn down once, but twice, along with several other mysterious fires during that period. Either it was arson, or this city had some mighty clumsy inhabitants back then.

I don't think Waco is the problem with it's wider lanes...Temple is a bottleneck....just north of Bellmead is a bottleneck until you get to the Y north of Hillsboro...

What did Waco officials contribute to this meeting? Why was only one Waco committee member in attendance? Is Waco prepared to give Temple-Killeen the uppper hand here, again? Will someone please explain the definition of "transparency"? Apparently, it has a new meaning. To me, it means putting up a false front, while the details, ethical or unethical, go on outside the public's view.