What the writer conveniently leaves out is that 2 years earlier voters did approve TXDOT using toll financing, as specifically stated in the ballot language:
"Proposition 15 : The constitutional amendment creating the Texas Mobility Fund and authorizing grants and loans of money and issuance of obligations for financing the construction, reconstruction, acquisition, operation and expansion of state highways, turnpikes, toll roads, toll bridges and other mobility projects."
And anti-toll groups were screaming about it in 2001, so this was never some big secret slipped past the voters as the writer claims:
http://corridornews.blogspot.com/2001/10/proposition-15-would-allow-state-to.html
Prop. 15 passed in 2001 with 67% of the vote.
So there was at least 2 years of debate about toll roads before Prop. 14 went to the voters in 2003.
Just more dishonesty, lies, and revisionist history from the anti-TTC/anti-Perry types. If they are right on the issues, why the need to be dishonest?
Now, Texans did approve another constitutional amendment, this one in 2001, that created the Texas Mobility Fund, and it actually said the money could go to "state highways, turnpikes, toll roads, toll bridges, and other mobility projects." A total of 543,759 Texans said yes to that one.
"What the writer conveniently leaves out is that 2 years earlier voters did approve TXDOT using toll financing, as specifically stated in the ballot language:
"Proposition 15 : The constitutional amendment creating the Texas Mobility Fund and authorizing grants and loans of money and issuance of obligations for financing the construction, reconstruction, acquisition, operation and expansion of state highways, turnpikes, toll roads, toll bridges and other mobility projects."
And anti-toll groups were screaming about it in 2001, so this was never some big secret slipped past the voters as the writer claims:
http://corridornews.blogspot.com/2001/10/proposition-15-would-allow-state-to.html"
Sounds to me like they boiled this frog a bit at a time....
Well, ibid, and BTTT!
I moved to Texas in 2003 because it was common knowledge that the primary funding mechanism for the TTC was going to be toll revenues. I'm not privy to backroom meetings and other such goings-on, so how did I know it if it was such a secret?
To me, it's important to be part of a community that thinks forward and is not buried in mistakes of the past. The current adminstration is providing real leadership by providing for our future transportation needs. Much unlike their detractors.
Now, Texans did approve another constitutional amendment, this one in 2001, that created the Texas Mobility Fund, and it actually said the money could go to "state highways, turnpikes, toll roads, toll bridges, and other mobility projects." A total of 543,759 Texans said yes to that one.
Left out?