Deal on planned tollway reached

Fort Worth Star-Telegram ^ | August 12, 2006 | Gordon Dickson

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

How Will The Trans Texas Corridor Affect Voters?

Officials agree to make corridor a loop

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[muawiyah]

Although this re-routing quiets the crowd in Dallas/Ft. Worth who felt "left out", it's not as beneficial to other major sectors such as Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Using this new route it becomes, in the end, simply another slow, crowded and nasty urban freeway.

[Johnny Crab]

Follow the money on this "project".

[4yearlurker]

The days of the free interstate highways are gone. The tax payers get to pay for that new road twice. Taxes & Tolls!

[DoughtyOne]

And don't forget, those taxes and tolls will NEVER end even when the roads are bought and paid for, and even though motorists pay huge taxes in the cost of gasoline and diesel to build those very roads..

Fine build toll roads. And while you're at it, end all taxation related to fuel. Like that will ever happen.

We're a bunch of suckers.

[Ben Ficklin]

free?

[deport]

The tax payers get to pay for that new road twice. Taxes & Tolls!

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I thought the TTC was a private funded effort not publically funded.

[deport]

Other movement on the MetroPlex roadways.....

PLANO – An agreement designed to end feuding between North Texas' two major road-building agencies got its first official endorsement Thursday.

The North Texas Tollway Authority board of directors voted unanimously to approve an agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation. The deal specifies which agency will build and operate several planned toll roads. It also specifies that the tollway authority will get contracts to collect tolls on every planned toll road.

[The South Texan]

The leaders in this state seem to be gunning towards turning us into another New Jersey.

Toll Roads all over the place.

Out of control property taxes.

And now an income tax that is called a "business payroll tax."

Is it any wonder some conservatives like me are going to vote for Freidmen in November?

[No Blue States]

I wish they would stick this idea up their.

[Deek]

The tax payers get to pay for that new road twice. Taxes & Tolls!

Please explain. What portion of your tax $$ is going to pay for the TTC-35?

[Between the Lines]

It will be interesting to watch how far the reality of this project diverges from the original vision, now that the greed has set in.

[deport]

Diddle what is your take on this. I know you've mentioned it before about using the TTC as an outer loop in the Metroplex. How far out is this going to be in miles from say the existing 635 on the east and 820 on the west today, if you care to hazard a guess? I guess one major change is the west side of Fort Worth being brought into the scheme.

[scan59]

Using this new route it becomes, in the end, simply another slow, crowded and nasty urban freeway.

Kind'a takes away from the whole point of the corridor, doesn't it?

[Charles Martel]

I wish they would stick this idea up their ( ! ).

There... better. I concur, BTW.

[sinkspur]

Is it any wonder some conservatives like me are going to vote for Freidmen in November?

Go ahead and vote for him, but he will likely finish in fourth place.

[4yearlurker]

Whoops!!

[muawiyah]

Yup. But this thing's gonna' cost like another "Big Dig" so all the polls in urban areas in Texas want to get in on the looting of the treasury.

[sinkspur]

Using this new route it becomes, in the end, simply another slow, crowded and nasty urban freeway.

It won't be a freeway; it will be a tollway.

There will be much less local traffic that far out, except for those who live near the tollway. The new route will benefit businesses which will be located near or on the tollway.