The only reason local road authorities are being created is to work around the fact that Perry/Willamson's TXDOT itself has become an "ungovernable agency".
The Legislature should clean out that rat's nest (TXDOT) and legislate that their charter is forevermore constrained to building and maintaining roads -- only...
The state legislature has stolen uncountable sums of road tax money, yet you say that they will save us from the evil engineers at TxDot.