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I’d rather have toll roads than higher fuel taxes. Toll roads can be built faster. The four fastest growing metroplitan areas in the entire United States are Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. There’s no way the transportation needs of the state of Texas can be met by marginal upgrades of the existing interstate highways.

I agree tolls are the way to go, but not foreign toll companies taking the profits and running, local toll authority's bound by law to use the profits to expand the system is a much better idea, set the toll rates and profit margins by law; any surplus goes to building more roads or lowering tolls on the existing roads.

Austin is so far behind in road construction, iâ€™m so glad i moved to Dallas I would not trade my morning commute down 635 for south bound mopac anyday of the week. 8 miles in Austin takes 45+ mins creeping down mopac where as 25 miles in Dallas takes 30 to 40 mins at the same time of day 8 am rush hour. People do 80 mph in bumper to bumper traffic up here just like LA it's amazing. I love it cops have better crap to do than write tickets to tens of thousands going 10-15 over the limit. I have a picture on my camera phone of my speedo at 80 mph with a car 20 feet in front of my bumper at 1705 on a wends after noon on 635 westbound. I just had to take a pic my friends in "Austun" refuse to believe every one speeds up here. Try that on slow-pac assuming one could get up to speed the damn motorcycle cops stop people for 3 over I know I got a ticket for THREE MPH over at south mopac and 183 last time I went to the liberal Mecca for holiday.