2-year ban on toll roads sought

Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | March 7, 2007 | Gordon Dickson

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

More articles on the bill, etc.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[Ben Ficklin]

"There is going to be three types of roads built in Texas, 'toll roads, slow roads, and no roads.' So pick what kind you want."

[heywoodubuzzoff]

Funny how the gas tax money rolls in but can not be spent on improving roads unless it is spent improving roads to be made into toll roads.

[ken21]

granma strayhorn knew more about this than anyone several years ago.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[BaylorDad]

Thanks for the ping but NO COMMENT!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[wolfcreek]

Oh, you can bet the officials at the Mobility Auth. will do all they can to make life miserable for drivers if the moratorium is passed. They want their money, NOW!


The new toll roads in the Austin area are already seeing many complaints. Extra long traffic lights at crossing roads, pileups where toll roads meet the free roads and visa-versa, limited exits causing snarls because drivers have no alternatives routes in case of an accident. The fact is, they're throwing these roads together with little planning and poor craftsmanship. A 5 mile section of one toll roads had to be completely redone when the rebar floated to the surface. This idea of private partenerships doing a faster, better job, is a myth. All they're interested in is our money.

[Ben Ficklin]

Which Public-Private road are you talking about?

[wolfcreek]

Mostly 183A but, the redo is on 45. Not sure if 45 is P-P.

[wolfcreek]

We can throw SH130 into the mix of complaints.

[Ben Ficklin]

"granma strayhorn knew more about this than anyone several years ago."

Here's grannie's opinion from 2003

[Ben Ficklin]

I didn't realize those were PPP roads? Who was the builder? When you refer only to "they", I'm not sure if you are talking about the actual builder or the global overlords.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

"Y'all" are welcome. :-)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

bump.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

None of those roads are PPPs. There will be a PPP section of SH 130 started sometime soon from US 183 to Seguin, TX.

[1rudeboy]

Funny how the gas tax money rolls in but can not be spent on improving roads unless it is spent improving roads to be made into toll roads.

Funnier that the thing conservatives dreamed of in the 1980's, privatizing non-essential governmental functions, is now itself a source of humor for ostensible conservatives.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

IIRC, "they" are, in this case, Texas (SH 130, SH 45N, Loop 1) and Austin's Regional Mobility Authority (US 183-A).

[Stat-boy]

"Funnier that the thing conservatives dreamed of in the 1980's, privatizing non-essential governmental functions, is now itself a source of humor for ostensible conservatives."

If private companies were buying land and building roads, great. More power to them, and I would hope they make as much money possible.

However, what we have here is private companies (a) buying the right to run a monopoly for 50 years[once a toll road is built, even a government entity cannot build new roads that would compete with the toll road] and (b) using the power of the government to acquire land.