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"how much would you have to increase the gasoline taxes to pay for this? bonds issued, etc."

To build new freeways at a reasonable clip, an increase of about 20 cents per gallon for gasoline would do the trick. That would bring in roughly $3 Billion per year, and allow about 250 miles of new 6-lane freeway to be built (in rural areas). Using that formula, you could complete much of the TTC in about 16 years.

The nice thing about the gas tax is that everyone who drives pays, not just the people who use it. And no one gets to rob the drivers blind (like Cintra continues to do in Canada).

Building these highways as freeways would virtually assure no more traffic jams in Texas - but if you build them as toll roads, so many trucks and cars will be pushed on to what's left of the crubling freeways that everyone (except the filthy rich) will suffer.