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The existing taxes are not sufficient to maintain exisiting roads.

Of course they are. They've been maintaining the existing roads for eons.

So if there is not a reasonable existing free route then you don't get new roads and you do not provide the infrastucture needed for growth and prosperity for your citizens. I am open to other suggestions but again, all I hear is "we don't want it" but you still want roads.....

I mispoke. We want to build a road. There is either an existing free alternate available or there isn't. If there isn't, then make the new road a toll road. If there is, then make the new road a toll road and leave the free road alone.

My problem is that they are turning free roads into toll roads where there ISN'T an existing [reasonable & free] alternative. SH121 north of Dallas is an example. There is no reasonable way to get from The Colony/Frisco to points east or west except SH121. There are NO backstreet routes - the only way to do it is to drive 100 miles out of your way. They want to turn it into a toll road to pay for new roads elsewhere - roads that won't be used by the SH121 drivers.

The existing taxes are not sufficient to maintain exiting roads.

Of course they are. They've been maintaining the existing roads for eons.

TxDOT spends an increasing percentage of its budget each year on road maintenance. They can't afford to both build new roads, and maintain the ones that are in place. Since not ALL new roads will be tolled, the percentage of available money to maintain roads will continue to decrease, even if we do build toll roads.

The ugly truth is that even with more toll roads, we face either a tax increase or tolls on existing roads in order to continue the current level of maintenance.

Aren't they going to toll 121 in order to convert the existing road to a high speed road? If I am not mistaken, the last time I drove on 121 it was a nightmare- traffic jams and lights for miles. That is what the tolls would pay for. you could get from the East to the West in half or 1/3 of the time it takes currently. Aren't there alternatives such as Parker or Park or Legacy or Rosemead, or Franfurt?