[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Last chance for input on I-69

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[EverOnward]

for reference — geez

[adm5]

Sounds about right.

[LasVegasMac]

Truck tolls on Segment 5 and Segment 6 of Highway 130 are contracted to be 50 cents per mile when the road opens. The 50-year contract includes a formula for increases. Tolls for cars will start at 12.5 cents per mile.

So these guys are going to operate just these two segments, 5 & 6.

Obviously, another entity is operating segments 1-4.

How many segments are there?

Sounds like an expensive road to drive on....

[tennteacher]

This is a joke, right?

[e_castillo]

Ouch.

[FoxInSocks]

Tolls for cars will start at 12.5 cents per mile.

Conservative estimate, that's equivalent to $2.50 per gallon of gasoline.

[org.whodat]

Officials with the Spanish toll road operator Cintra have announced that the company has secured $430 million in loans from the U.S. government to build and operate two segments of a toll road in central Texas.

What in the hell, the government doesn't have the money to build roads but the have money to loan the Ben Laden family and the Saudis to build the damn road. Way to go republicans.

[NormsRevenge]

What a country.. for foreigners.

[Halgr]

I pray to God someone finds a way to torpedo this soon.

[girlscout]

The 50-year contract

I'd swear that I read it was a 70 year contract somewhere; DEIS, townhall meeting material, hidden secret documents that have made it to the surface? Also, aren't Zachary and Cintra owned by the same Spanish company?