Hundreds of businesses and homes forced to relocate amid I-45 expansion

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three hundred and thirty one of them, plus five places
of worship, we'll have to relocate.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I don't know what the compensation looks like for businesses,
if that actually completely recoups the cost of what it
means to move your business to another location.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Aaron Erikson of the group stop Tex dot I forty
five says many businesses on Saint Emmanuel where IT starts,
have already left, and in reality, it's not going to
help the traffic problems either.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Now people will think, oh, it's a wider freeway, so
then I can just get on that. Therefore, more people
will get on the freeway.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
She says it's expansion was similar and did nothing to
help Andre Parade News Radio seven forty KTRH