The toll seems *awfully* steep... until you're trying to drive from San Antonio to Denton during the week, hitting traffic all along the way. Between that insanity and the bliss of driving the tollways across Ohio, I'll bite the bullet and take the tollway. $40 is cheap for the sanity.
Here's what I wrote in another thread.
Cintra would be insane to allow Perry to leave open the possibility of some future governor, maybe KBH or a Dem, coming in with a vengeance and adding a couple of lanes each way to I-35 - thereby destroying Cintra's investment.Where would the state get the right of way to add two lanes in each direction to I-35? The right of way currently is narrower than most newer Interstate highways that have two lanes each direction separated by a grass median. The grass median separating north and south bound traffic between Austin and Hillsborough is about half the width of other Texas Interstate highways. That's why the state built concrete crash barriers between those lanes in the last five years. The frontage roads adjacent to I-35 are also closer than more modern frontage roads. There is no place to to put more than one additional lane in each direction using the current right of way unless elevated lanes were built. You could build lots more lanes in a brand new right of way for what it would cost to build an elevated highway from San Antonio to Denton.
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