Houston PING
“If existing roads need to be expanded, only new traffic lanes would be tolled.”
I'm not believing anything these buzzards tell us. When Houston was trying to raise money for the beltway 20 years ago, they said the toll would only last a certain length of time to pay for the toll road. When the time came, a reporter from one of the local TV stations confronted the head of the toll authority, asking if the tolls were going to be stopped.
"If we stop the tolls on the beltway, we'll have to raise taxes some other way to pay for new road improvements elsewhere in Houston," was his excuse.
It's a slippery slope. Once there is an avenue for revenue, the government rarely stops taking it in. They just argue about how to spend the money.