[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Plans for SH 130 expansion left in limbo after statewide toll construction freeze (3/9)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Pflugerville officially calls on state commission to resume SH 130 widening project (3/27)

[slumber1]

I live in Texas and I love toll roads. Those who use the roads pay for them. Those who don’t don’t. Adding toll lanes to existing roads is also a good idea. If you wish to travel in a less congested lane you pay a toll. If you do not wish to pay the toll stay in the bumper to bumper traffic

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

OUT OF STYLE? Wait till they start getting a cash inflow from the toll roads! They are like a Cash Cow!

In Oklahoma, several toll roads were built back in the 1950s with the promise that when they were paid for they would revert to free roads. Many of these were paid off way back in the 1970s and are STILL toll roads. The money is just too good to let go.
Also, a standard road will take decades to build with billions in cost overruns. A toll road will be in in just a few years and then the money flows! Oh how it flows!

[MrEdd]

Rick Perry’s moratorium on widening free highways (which was an integral part of the Trans Texas Corridor debacle) was the only way forward for toll roads.

[Blue House Sue]

Texas Toll Roads are Democrat boondoggles.

[Real Cynic No More]

The mistake they made was adding tolled lanes to free highways. Anyone with half a brain could see that coming.

[minnesota_bound]

Anyone who loves toll roads must love more gas taxes too.

[zeugma]

What became known as Proposition 1 in 2014 (sending some oil and gas tax revenue to TxDOT) and Proposition 7 in 2015 (giving TxDOT a slice of state sales taxes) had language saying that the money could not be used for toll projects. TxDOT had planned to finesse that prohibition by spending the tax money to add free lanes to those urban roads, while using borrowed money for the toll portions of the projects.

As usual, the criminals in government are never satisfied with the amount of our money they have to spend, nor does the law have any meaning to them if it gets in their way. What would be called fraud by any investigative agency if it were being done by you or I just gets a pass when the government does it.

[Snickering Hound]

Drive under 90mph on 130 and get run over.

[PAR35]

The revolt got momentum in Collin County, where toll roads mark three sides of Plano. When they announced tolls for the free expressway on the 4th side to completely box in the bulk of the city with tolls, the people finally managed to get the attention of the politicians and block the tolls on that road.

And guess what - the construction went forward anyway.