[Carl Vehse]

Austin TX is faced with similar extensive delays, rising costs, and continuing traffic snarls on its huge Mopac project, adding toll lanes to the existing taxpayer-paid lanes. "Blame bombs" are being tossed back and forth between the usual suspects.

Also the toll company for part of the SH 130 toll road (advertised to car drivers as a way to avoid the continuous multi-lane train of 18-wheelers on I-35) went bankrupt. Now SH 130 is being advertised to truckdrivers.

Lately there's talk of turning highways leading to the Austin airport into toll roads (just like Orlando).

I'm waiting for the next ripoff... intersection toll stoplights.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Lately there's talk of turning highways leading to the Austin airport into toll roads (just like Orlando).

They're already building toll lanes on Texas 71 near Austin Bergstrom Airport.

I'm waiting for the next ripoff... intersection toll stoplights.

They already have built a pair of tolled flyover ramps at the intersection of I-45 and Texas 242 in Montgomery County near Houston.