Posted on 10/13/2005 2:44:37 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Actually, if they deported all the illegals, we wouldn't have traffic problems and wouldn't have to waste more tax dollars building more highways.
It doesn't mention that some existing freeways will be turned into tollways by the Spanish Company!
Blacklands Coalition, Texans against the Trans Texas Corridor, invite the public to attend an informational rally on Saturday, Oct. 15, 7 - 9 p.m. at Seaton Star Hall, 5 miles east of Temple on Hwy 53. Speaker Sal Costello of the Texas Toll Party will address Propositions 1&9 and other speakers will update the public on the Trans Texas Corridor.
Blacklands Coalition is a grassroots organization whose mission is to educate, warn and protect Texans about the Trans Texas Corridor. The public is welcome.
Um, yeah, and if we just quit building bombs and bullets we'd have no more wars...
Because that isn't going to happen, and wasn't proposed. Name a single freeway that will be turned into a freeway. Be specific.
Wich group do you think Perry plans on working for once he leaves office?
All hair, no cattle...
Now that's a definite statement!
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An agreement creating an independent review into controversial proposed "Phase 2" toll roads included in the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization's "Mobility 2030" transportation plan is slated for Austin City Council approval next week, but not without further uproar. In creating the review's steering committee, an agreement between the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, Austin, and other stakeholders, including the city of Round Rock, and Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties, cites a June CAMPO decision calling for re-review of the proposed toll roads. "Phase 2" tolls would affect stretches of US 183, 290, and Loop 360, among other roads. Sal Costello and fellow toll opposers in the Austin Toll Party fear the independent study is anything but. Though most of the study is being financed by the city, Costello said its steering committee has been "hijacked" by pro-toll stakeholders, who have the votes to overpower the city. Council Member Brewster McCracken, who led the council toll revolt, called the steering committee a voteless administrative body. He said it was created so "everyone has confidence that information they feel important is considered." Himself suspicious of the financial need for tolls, McCracken said, "We are all going to agree on what the numbers are." – Wells Dunbar
A resolution in support of the I-35 segment of the Trans-Texas Corridor stalled at Monday night's meeting of the CAMPO Transportation Policy Board. Executive Director Michael Aulick, whose staff has been in talks with the TxDOT, drew up a list of conditions CAMPO might like to see on the Central Texas portion of the corridor, such as the use of SH 130 as a section of TTC-35, a commitment to relocate the Union Pacific freight rail, and comprehensive land planning in tandem with the corridor's construction planning. The North Texas region has passed its own list of conditions, but Central Texas leaders balked. Commissioner Gerald Daugherty said the only project more controversial than toll roads was TTC-35, and Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, said he has strong reservations about supporting a resolution in support of the corridor given his constituents' opposition, although he might consider a letter to TxDOT that included some of the conditions outlined by Aulick. The resolution was tabled until CAMPO's December meeting. – K.R.
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Now that's a definite statement!
Oops, should read:
"Name a single freeway that will be turned into a tollway. Be specific."
Trans-Texas Corridor PING
Because that isn't going to happen, and wasn't proposed. Name a single freeway that will be turned into a freeway. Be specific.
The Boulder-Denver Freeway
As opposed to all keyboard pounding slander, no truth? The state isn't paying $7.2 billion to a Spanish company, but rather the company is spending $6 billion of money it will raise in private markets to build the road, and pay the state $1.2 billion in a concession fee.
Thanks for the ping, but as you probably know I'm in favor of the TTC.
He’s more optimistic than I’d be. People have pointed it out before, but if the NYC subway wasn’t built when it was, it’d not get built. Wouldn’t happen today.
Look at that BART extension to SFO. That was planned in various forms since the 70’s. Took them 30 years to get a little 4 or 7 or whatever mile extension out to a dopey airport.
That’s less than 10 miles. Not 500 or whatever it is from Laredo to OK - and it ain't no 1200' wide either.
I’d be inclined to bet it doesn’t get built at all.
Then, I don't know what sort of toll system they intend to use but here in Orange County they have FastTrak or whatever it is and they also have those automatic booths where you pay.
Problem is that unless they're manned, people just drive through the toll booth place without even slowing down. I swear I've been there feeding quarters into the machine and a half-dozen cars will zip right through the other lanes.
I think I'm the only dope in OC that actually pays the F-ing toll.
California figures out ways to add lanes to freeways that have minimal rights of way space. I guess in Texas they'd rather give their money to a spanish company through tolls.
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