Posted on 01/08/2007 5:20:43 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What free lanes?
The proposal was announced by Gov. Rick Perry in late 2005 after the state was warned that federal transportation dollars to Texas would soon be slim to none.
I believe this was actually announce in 2004.
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
"What free lanes?"
First I've heard of that. Wonder if that involves trucks or passenger vehicles?
The new and upgraded connecting roads and the local roads that would be subsidized by the concession fees. Remember that for TTC-35 Cintra agreed to pay the state a more than $1 billion fee in addition to all construction costs.
One of the key items in the article that is so often overlooked in the debate:
after the state was warned that federal transportation dollars to Texas would soon be slim to none.
I don't think many people realize how much of roadbuilding has been paid by the feds. An 80-90% fed match used to be the norm.
BTTT
If they are so short of funds, why did they spend all summer resurfacing FM 21 (Camp county) when it was in excellent shape before they did that? I just don't get it.
Thanks for the ping!
bump.
Politics?
You're welcome. :-)
Cintra won't pay anything. The citizens of Texas will pay for all of it as they drive on the toll ways.
Oh, and don't forget, Texans will still be paying gas taxes ostensibly for public roads, as they pay tolls to drive on Cintra's private road. Texans get screwed.
The state of Texas has $15 billion in surplus. But they'd rather take 25% of your gas tax money and give it to the leftist universities instead of building roads with it. And they'd also rather take the gas tax money and force you to drive on private roads they don't pay for at all, by making sure that public roads stay jammed up.
Shouldn't the red slash go IN FRONT OF the lettering?
Transportation. Progressive strategies and priorities must be established. The Legislature should seek creative ways to improve traffic flow and reduce the number of accidents along Interstate 10, especially between Tucson and Phoenix, and to develop a mass transit system with funding mechanisms, including a gas-tax increase and toll roads.
Transportation is complex. We don't expect all of the transportation challenges to be solved by May, but we do expect strategies and steps to upgrade Arizona's transportation infrastructure be put into motion.
Does this actually mean Arizona's thinking of funding choo-choos and buses with higher gasoline taxes and tolls on drivers?
Source?
prediction
Transportation. Progressive [translation: leftist] strategies and priorities must be established. The Legislature should seek creative ways to improve traffic flow and reduce the number of accidents along Interstate 10, especially between Tucson and Phoenix, and to develop a mass transit system with funding mechanisms, including a gas-tax increase and toll roads.
Read it carefully. They're calling for increased gas-taxes and toll roads for the purpose of funding mass transit. It's a leftist newspaper, what would you expect?
Maybe that's one reason Texas' highways are in such bad shape. They had to spend highway money on the little choo-choo in downtown Houston.
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