Transportation Officials Cancel Plans for Trans-Texas Corridor

The Texas Department of Transportation has pulled the last plug on the Trans-Texas Corridor, Gov. Rick Perry's embattled plan to build a toll-road network across the state.

Earlier this year, the agency said it was scaling down the project but continued to work on a mammoth plan, the Associated Press reported.

Transportation officials said Wednesday the TTC is fully dead, AP said. The state canceled its final development contract with Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, the Spanish developer, Bloomberg reported.

Backers of the corridor, which was to parallel Interstate 35, promoted it as a state-of-the art toll corridor that would increase international trade and eliminate traffic congestion.

Opponents objected to the taking of so much private land and to the tolls and argued the corridor would increase drug trafficking.