[wolfcreek]

“I half suspect to irritate Texans into supporting the TTC”

You'd be half right but, a lot of the construction (at least between SA and Dallas) is for the benefit of cross traffic and local access.

[normy]

Yeah there needed to be construction from Waco on down. I figure once this is finished the drive will much more pleasurable.

[Wallace T.]

It seems like the DOT has been working on I-35 in Hillsboro for a decade, and it still is incomplete. Furthermore, it took them about as long to widen a 5 mile stretch of I-35E south of I-20 in southern Dallas County. We're not talking about the building of the Hoover Dam or the Golden Gate Bridge, but simple highway widening. I don't know if this was caused by inadequate funding or incompetence, but it needs to stop.

Before motor fuels taxes are raised, the education lobby needs to take its hands out of this revenue source. Toll roads are not the solution for long distance transportation, although they are justified in places like Dallas, Houston, Austin, Fort Worth, and San Antonio, where it serves as user fees for commuter roads like the Dallas North Tollway or the Hardy Toll Road.