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TheNorth America SuperCorridor Coalition (NASCO) is a non-profit organization that seeks to develop an internationalmulti-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, which it claims will improve trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.
NASCO's scope encompassesInterstate highwaysI-35,I-29, andI-94 and the significant connectors to those highways in theUnited States,Canada, andMexico. Certain commentators[1]and politicians[2]have referred to I-35 as the "NAFTA superhighway". Some of the beliefs associated with this appellation have been characterized by opponents as aconspiracy theory to undermine U.S. sovereignty.[3][4][5]
The project includes the largest border crossing inNorth America – theAmbassador Bridge inDetroit,Michigan andWindsor, Ontario – and one of the largest inland ports,Laredo, Texas andNuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, the ports ofManzanillo, Colima andLázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. It runs as far north asEdmonton, Alberta andWinnipeg, Manitoba.
NASCO now includes the former North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, a nonprofit organization inMexico. Membership includes public and private sector entities along the corridor in all three participating countries. In the past, theTexas Department of Transportation, which once proposed building theTrans-Texas Corridor, was a NASCO member, but has not been for the last few years.
NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from theUnited States Department of Transportation for the development of a technology and tracking tools. NASCO states that the deployment of a modern information system will reduce cost, improve efficiency, reduce trade-related congestion, and enhance security of cross-border and intra-corridor trade and traffic.
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