Private companies exercising eminent domain is eerily familiar to the TransTexas Corridor. TransTexas Corridor brought an emergence of grassroots groups opposed to a private, foreign company being granted the power of eminent domain. The Legislature ended the TransTexas Corridor years ago. But, private tollroad companies still exist, including The Texas Turnpike Corporation. It has proposed a new Northeast Gateway Toll Project. Vocal opposition to this project caused the first public meeting to be shut down by a fire marshall when capacity was quickly exceeded at the venue. The second public meeting turned heated with unanimous opposition. Such is the case when the words private company and eminent domain appear in the same sentence. [WFAA Dallas]