If I owned a cow pasture, and the road was coming through it, I'd probably be excited about being able to sell my cow pasture to gas stations, supermarkets, or developers in general.
The TTC will be a limited access toll road. Cintra-Zachry would give you the market price for the undeveloped cow pasture. and that would be that. No gas stations, no supermarkets, no big developers (other than those approved by Cintra-Zachry to build on their new undeveloped cow pasture).
Are you opposed to any more new roads in this country?
Why can't we take care of, and improve the ones we have? Why do we nee this monstrosity when fuel prices are reaching for the skies? Why are 25% of our gas taxes going towards education instead of roads? Why does everyne think that this willlower the price of inmported goods by bypassing the west coast ports? Doesn't anyone think of the cost of the tolls being passed onto consumers? Where are all those who belly-ache about the cheap Chinese imports?
I don’t think you’re thinking this through.
Who cares if the cost of the tolls is passed onto the consumer? Is that more onerous than having the taxpayer build the road?
The goods will have to compete with similar goods NOT coming across toll roads, so they can’t pass the total cost along. Besides the tolls aren’t going to be significant.
Why do fuel prices have anything to do with whether we need a new road?
If we need a new road at $3/gallon, I'm sure we'd need one at $1/gallon.
If the tollroad becomes a very commercial gateway, it will spark development along it.
That's a given, since free markets work. If nothing else, developers will pay for the offramp and the needed accomodations/fuel/whatever.