Posted on 01/27/2007 11:17:34 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It's not as if you get on the TTC, and you can't get off. True, if you want to bypass Dallas, you stay on the TTC.
But whereas the TTC will be highspeed, once you hit the offramp you're back to normal traffic. There will be passenger service from San Antonio to Dallas. It won't be entirely on the TTC.
How long before that superhighway/railway stretches through Mexico, Central America, all the way to the tip of South America?
"Surely someone in Austin can look at current highway maps and see how inconvenient and boneheaded the same old, same old thinking is."
Sure, they could but, this deal provides them with the retirement funds they so *richly* deserve.
I don't know if there's a thread yet but, the new toll roads in the Austin area will not grant free travel to police and emergency vehicles.(unless there is an actual emergency) The toll roads commission said they told their *investors* there would be very limited exemptions from tolls and that was a promise they intended to keep.
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