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To: Snickering Hound

“Of course they’re still up, it’s a revenue source.”

Actually ‘revenue engine’ is the term used by the toll road community. Beltway 8 tolls are now being used for street work in Houston. The dirty little secret about highways is that they are VERY CHEAP to build and operate - so if there’s a big market for their use, they make HUGE BUCKS, which is why you see the sweetheart deals between governments and toll road companies.


21 posted on 05/25/2016 4:23:23 AM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Houston’s double dipping with their speeding ticket revenue on toll roads.

The tickets are not about safety.


26 posted on 05/25/2016 6:05:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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