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.
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.