Published Brownsville Herald March 11, 2007
There is more than enough bad news in the news today and the saga of the Brownsville Navigation District keeps adding to it, seemingly without end.
From the beginning Port management both elected and appointed, have worked in secret to keep the details of a bridge that may have been doomed in its concept had it continued forward as a rail facility as well as a truck bridge.
It appears that access would have resulted in a noose of rail track around the city of Matamoros and I now even wonder, if a truck bridge would cause more ecological damage than it is worth. I seem to remember some wildlife issues coming to light at the time the Veteran’s Bridge was being built.
Further, one only need look at the report of issues that Mexico raised back in 1992 as described in the Torteya & Torteya Report of 2004, to see the concern. Mr. Kruse’s response, in an effort to resolve the issue of competition related to containerized freight identified at the time, has been undermined by stated BND goals of attracting containerized freight. More »
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