[Redbob]

As one who only occasionally must drive I-35, I think this sounds like a great idea.
Maybe this toll road will be what the interstate highway system once hoped to be: a way to get around the country without having to dawdle through every Middlesex village and town.

I'd gladly pay to be able to avoid driving through Dallas or Ft. Worth on the way south toward San Antone or the Hill Country.

[TXnMA]

I'd gladly pay to be able to avoid driving through Dallas or Ft. Worth on the way south toward San Antone or the Hill Country.

At 15 - 20 cents per mile? (With no guarantee that 20 cents is a fixed upper limit if they don't turn a profit?)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Why not just widen I-35 by two lanes in the country and four lanes in the city, as was mentioned in an earlier reply?

As I understand it, Texas devotes about 1/4th of its gas tax money to education. Imagine what directing ALL of the tax to roads could do for I-35 and other "needy" highways.

[BobL]

"I'd gladly pay to be able to avoid driving through Dallas or Ft. Worth on the way south toward San Antone or the Hill Country."

That's understandable, I'd probably pay, at times, to go on a toll road, so as to escape a clogged freeway. The problem is that they cannot both function side-by-side in any realistic economic model, without some form of monopoly to protect the toll road. That's why there has to be a wording in the contract that somehow forces people to use the toll road.

In other words, the governor here basically just stole I-35 from us - that what angers me.