Posted on 03/23/2008 4:49:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hmmmm.
You forgot the secrecy and denial that surrounded all the planning a couple of years ago. ;-)
I see our main problem being poorly designed interchanges on the main arteries. A perfect example is the one between I-10 and Loop 1604.
Why would anyone want to use 281 as an alternate to I-35? 281 is approximateely 20 miles further west. It doesn't make sense unless you live between Blanco and New Braunfels.
People just need to slow down.
Once you get past San Antonio, 77 and 281 are what I like to call the *South Texas Autobahns. All they really need to do is build by-passes around the few communities you encounter. North of SA is a different matter.
Most folks in Texas are opposed to this plan.
Which roads are FREE? Are you talking about built for free?
*referendum*
As in vote? No Way! They know they’d lose bigtime.
I’m talking about not paying a toll to drive on that section of U.S. 77 that will become I-69 or I-x69
That's incorrect.
The TTC is entirely paid for by the private consortium at no taxpayer expense, or if there is any, it's very indirect and minimal.
It is owned by the state, however the consortium is given a 50 year window to operate the tollway and collect the revenue to recoup the investment.
At the end of 50 years, the consortium is out of the picture. Government being what it is, the TTC probably remains a tollway after 50 years, run by TXDOT. It never left state hands, and you never paid a dime unless you voluntarily chose to drive on it.
I think you’re grossly over exaggerating the issue. Texas is a fabulous State, and does manage their road systems equal to, or better than, any State I frequent.
Witness, if you will, the network of highways with higher than 55 mph speed limits compared to any other State.
Per capita, Texas is far below the average in highway deaths. In fact FARS reports Texas shows a 2-7% decrease in highway deaths since 02. Texas is well above the average for alcohol related traffic arrests, the number two cause of highway fatalities at 41% of all traffic deaths.
For being such a large and diverse State, with an exploding population, Texas does do a very good job.
Nothing personal, but you need to take a deep breath and calm down a tad. LOL
Check out this article from 2006 and see if you see any discrepancies.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16819345&BRD=1157&PAG=461&dept_id=172073&rfi=6
And this one.
Thank you, both.
In replying to your post I’ll address other’s remarks. Thanks for the statistics but they don’t really make me any safer on these roads I have to travel all the time.
281 IS a major alternative route from San Antonio to all points North. I never take 35 to Dallas Ft. Worth. Neither do many other folks. Traffic on 281 has increased dramatically over the 13 years I’ve lived next to it.
It should be 4 lanes all the way up and down and there should be no stop lights on it. Its absolutely crazy that I-35 is the only real interstate for the entire area. At the very least the freeway should be extended out from SA to Hwy 46. Second to that its crawling through every little town in central Texas is ridiculous.
290 between Dripping Springs and Austin is even worse.
These are the areas I travel regularly and am familiar with. I’m sure there are dozens of other examples all over the state.
Nobody seems to want to address my comment regarding highway bonds. I would love to buy some good Texas bonds. Hard to come by.
Yes its a great state, except for the way its run. The highways are inadequate to the needs.
This isn’t the same thing as mere cross border roads. This is about deliberately bypassing our own West Coast ports in order to bring in goods made by ChiCom slave labor through cheap Mexican ports and then into the heartland of the USA.
It is just more rotten shilling for the Mexicans that we get from George W. Bush and the Republocrats.
Don’t forget the eminant domain land grab to get all that land in the 1st place.
they don’t care if that land has been in the family for over 100 years or 10 years. Take it for the road.
How about the house that goes with that land in the family for 100 years, it is a registered historical landmark...... just tear it down we need that road.
It scares me that the gov. doesn’t care if we ALL SAY NO!!!!! they are going to build it.
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