Posted on 08/17/2016 5:02:55 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
There is no inequality that can’t be fixed by wealth redistribution. /sarcasm
Dallas-Ft Worth toll road (now I-30) back in the 70’s was supposed to stop collecting tolls after they recouped the money (decades to get the money recouped), didn’t happen.
Apparently most all people that knew had retired and/or left.
Went to court and the toll road administration lost, so just because they keep charging when the terms and conditions of the contract were ignored, doesn’t mean it’s over.
And run by the most efficient thing ever invented. . .a bureaucracy.
It’s ok. It’s Austin. They voted for that.
I don’t get over to that side of El Paso too often. As soon as I-10 hits New Mexico, it drops to 75 all the way to the AZ border.
Good point.
The 85mph speed limit begins at the Kerr County line about 15 miles east of Kerrville and ends at the El Paso County 460 miles later, and about 35 miles east of El Paso itself.
And it’s also 85mph from where I-20 splits off from I-10 for about 40 miles almost to Odessa.
You are correct, and as you noted, even when the project is supposedly “private” there sure seems to be a lot of cronyism involved - like the deal you described to restrict competition.
“If fuel taxes were actually based on road wear caused, trucks should pay almost all the tax. As usual, anything politicians and government do is messed up.”
I have no doubt you are right about this.
Just in Austin?
No place else?
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