N. Texas highway improvements come with a toll[title shortened]

The Dallas Morning News ^ | April 18, 2010 | MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER

[Sarajevo]

N. Texas highway improvements come with a toll: Expect construction snarls for 5 years, stiff tolls after that

Dallas-area traffic has been among the worst in the nation for years, and for many commuters it's about to get a lot worse before it gets better.

Call it growing pains, or just one big mess, but construction has either already started or soon will on no fewer than a half-dozen of the most heavily traveled – and already backed up – traffic corridors in North Texas, as the region embarks on what may be the most aggressive road-building program in the country.

[Sarajevo]

" If my expectation is that my drive in to my office in Fort Worth, on what we call the free roads, is going to be like it used to be – that we are going to return to 1968, when the government built all the roads for free – I'm going to be really disappointed."

This guy is a clown. Roads never were "free". I just wish the spectre of toll roads would go away, but with companies like Cintra lobbyong for "their share", I can't see it happening.

[oyez]

Nice roads ain’t cheap. The way things are growing there an adequate highway system is a must. Toll roads are are a fair system.

[peyton randolph]

“Toll roads are are a fair system.”
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And the Dallas area roads (toll and non-toll) would be better off if uninsured cars driven by unlicensed drivers were confiscated. Won’t happen because 99% of those guilty of it are illegals. The rest of us subsidize them.

[Sarajevo]

Toll roads are are a fair system.

Not when they've already been paid for by our gas taxes. A big issue is that approximately 25% of fuel taxes are diverted into education coffers instead of roads.

[Deaf Smith]

The planners at the Texas D.O.T. are total idiots. Since the mid 80’s they have lost the meaning of “Through Traffic” and thus continue to build greater bottle necks...their specialty.