[Dog Gone]

Why should people who need to use limited access highways have to pay 22 cents per mile (gas tax and Cintra's toll), when people clogging up surface streets get by with paying 2 cents per mile (gas tax only)?

If all the state money is being spent on maintaining and widening existing roads, then the really big new projects can't be built with state money. Nobody is being forced onto toll roads in this state.

Nobody likes tolls but nobody likes taxes, either. Yet most of us like new modern roads. You have to pick your poison.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

From http://www.firericwilliamson.com/expensive.htm:

"A 6 cent per gallon gas tax increase will raise around $840 million per year $630 million goes to transportation, $210 million goes to education

"$610 million per year is enough to prevent all freeway-to-tollway conversions, as well as build many of the new highways we need."

In addition to that, if the portion of the gas tax that was (mis)directed toward education was redirected toward roads, things would be even better. And if the gas tax were raised, as some advocate, by ten cents per gallon instead of six, things would be even better, and it would still be lower than it is in eight other states.

[BobL]

"Nobody is being forced onto toll roads in this state."

Well then....

"In your lifetime most existing roads will have tolls."
- Ric Williamson (Houston Chronicle, 11-Oct-2004)


...Please reconcile (and keep up with the statements from this out of control governor and his staff).