East Texans fear I-69/TTC will disrupt their rural lives
First county I-69/TTC hearing coming to Wharton
Trans-Texas Corridor PING!
Public-Private = corporate welfare
Oops, fuel efficent vehicles are now bad for road building, hmmm...why does this seem deeply suspicious to me?
Does my 2700 lbs Civic Hybrid cause just as much road damage, pollution, congestion and wear as an unregulated, overloaded Semi-Truck from Mexico?!!!
I think not.
The Trans-Texas Corridor: Texas’s Version of Boston’s Big Dig
If they plan on spending $200 BILLION, one can rest assured that it will be at least a trillion before it is finished...if it is ever finished. And all for speeding freight, legal and illegal goods, from Mexico.
Texas voters need to clean house from top to bottom beginning in November and continuing until every last politician of both parties who voted for this monstrosity is voted out of office. We are educating most of Mexico’s children, feeding much of their population, and paying for their hospitalization and incarceration. I think that should be enough.
..and they thought Ken Lay was corrupt...
Pardon me for a little schadenfreude here, but complaints that gasoline taxes aren’t high enough are b.s., and here’s why:
We have had the technology since the 1960s to build asphalt roads that last perhaps 10 times as long as typical asphalt roads. And while they are almost twice as expensive, the long term savings *would* have been enormous, except for one thing.
Nobody is using that technology, basically laying down a Kevlar sheet on the roadbed before laying asphalt on top of it. The reason?
Paving contractors. In every State in the union, paving contractors own the State legislature. They get the big bucks on their contracts, and the do not, no how and no way, want low maintenance roads.
For this reason, we have crummy roads in constant need of maintenance, huge, bloated paving and repair contracts for not just new roads, but endless repairs on old roads. And all paid for with gasoline taxes.
If they made better quality roads to begin with, our gas taxes could be cut in half overnight. Endless billions of dollars returned to the driving public. And not ironically, even our fuel bills would go down, because you burn less gas on good roads than on bad.
But ever since they have been building modern roads in the US, the rackets have been gouging the public for it, and the State and federal governments were more than happy to let them do so.