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"Here's a conversion to toll roads on I-10 in Houston [Katy Frwy].... Doesn't quite meet up with your facts does it? Pay if you want or use the free lanes... "

This pre-dates Perry's plan. I was at a hearing on this, and spoke on camera, and that was in the 1999 to 2000 time frame. So, maybe this helped Perry get the idea of the conversions to toll roads - but it happened while Bush was governor.

By the way, if you want to see how much of a disaster this type of scheme is, take a look at the California SH 91 toll lanes (an identical concept). They now charge over 50 cents per mile at peak times.

If others want the government telling them when to drive, and then punishing them big-time for their employers' working hours, more power to them - but not me.

So Perry has a plan to toll all of the Katy Freeway?..... where is it?..... The point being there isn't a plan to toll all the Texas Freeways and you know it...... The TTC is new construction, RMA may be using tolls in some instances but like Beltway 8 you have a free service road.

4,000 mile of the TTC criss crossing Texas isn't shutting down the existing Interstate system.

By the way, if you want to see how much of a disaster this type of scheme is, take a look at the California SH 91 toll lanes (an identical concept). They now charge over 50 cents per mile at peak times. If others want the government telling them when to drive, and then punishing them big-time for their employers' working hours, more power to them - but not me.

CA 91 had managed toll lanes added inside the still existing FREE LANES. The variable pricing is to try and maintain speeds of 55mph in the toll lanes by raising prices whenever the lanes start to bog down. Since there is always the parallel freeway option, how the heck is the gov't telling someone when to drive?

It is basic supply and demand, and when the demand is so high that it overwhelms capacity, these ADDITIONAL toll lanes are a good idea to provide another alternative. The driver then has a choice of continuing to travel for free or pay a premium to bypass the congestion. That's called capitalism.

But since you claim to have spoken on camera at a meeting about toll roads 4 years ago, obviously all this has been pointed out to you before, yet you choose to exaggerate and lie about it. Tells me all I need to know about you.