Toll Roads? Is that the best you can be angry about?
As a Dallas-area resident, I can promise you I was very much against them when I first moved here, but let me ask you a question:
What could be more capitalistic than letting the people who actually use the roads being the ones who pay for them?
Are you some kind of socialist who likes to see your tax money fund some road you will likely never drive in another part of the state?
As for me, I will gladly pay my tolls so my roads get built much quicker. Other states figured this out long ago.
The roads in question were not and are not needed. Blocking Perry from having them built saved us a lot, plus we have no legal impediment to keep us from widening I35 if we need to - Which the TTC would have imposed.
“What could be more capitalistic than letting the people who actually use the roads being the ones who pay for them?”
Interesting perspective on toll roads. As a Minnesota native-I would have disagreed with you a few years ago. We don’t have toll roads up there and things seem to function just fine without them.
Then I moved to the Philippines in 2007. Over here, there are mostly government-built and maintained roads that are always full of potholes and a nightmare to drive on (Here, they don’t have the ability to go trillions in debt to pay for this stuff). But there’s one highway near where we live called the Star Tollway. It’s privately-owned and maintained, and the roads are always smooth. I am more than happy to pay the toll to drive on a nice, smooth road that’s free of potholes.