Posted on 04/30/2009 6:43:35 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I avoid them, where possible, in PA because they are inferior to public roads.
Here on Houston’s westside, all the so call Freeways except 290 are either toll roads or have toll lanes. I-10, Westpark, Beltway 8 and the new Grand Parkway are all or in part toll roads. Maybe because all these new toll roads are on the westside, they may think that only rich perple live there and they can afford to pay tolls.
Austin - Texas’ own lil’ piece of Berkeley California
Low-income residents should walk and ride the bus!
You left out homosexuals.
In other words, using the SAME roads under the SAME conditions they currently have. Once the toll road is built, a number of commuters will be on that, and have less congestion on the frontage roads.
Of course if I had to go to work every day during rush hour, I'm sure I'd have a far different attitude.
I have to drive in the PM, 5 o'clock rush hour. You sure are not rushing to get anywhere. The rubber neckers make me want to want my .45 M1911 with me many days. Just the APD parking an EMPTY cruiser in the median on MOPAC will have people stopping to see if someone is inside.
Did anybody get stuck in traffic the other day when Plugs Biden was in town. They make such a circus out of getting those "important big people" around.
At least that was in the limousine liberal part of Austin for the most part. I hope he has some dims really PO'ed at him for that charade.
Judging by his gaffes, they should just stick Biden in a cardboard box in the White House basement and leave him there.
Yep, sure is.
Whatever it takes to stop TxDOT from tolling every road in the state.
man...I can remember when except for the Ft Worth tunrpike, Texas had no tolls or state taxes either on individuals
oil baby
just like Nashville, twin sisters in so many ways
Tax the rich.
Odd I never heard of racial impact on that one.
We’re still exempt from State Taxes, but have a 8.25% Sales Tax. Toll roads are growing like wildfire all over the DFW metro area. Also, our Property is around 2+ mill in most areas.
I hope they don’t use the same engineering firms Houston used or their last two major projects - an East/West Toll road from the Katy area into downtown was completely shut down after the rains the other day since it was flooded out at one point..... and the underpass of a multi-hundreds of millions dollar project at the intersection of I-10 and the Sam Houston Tollway had something like 10 feet of water at the base..... Thanks a bunch for those engineering marvels!
183 and MOPAC are toll roads? Guess it’s been longer than I remembered being in Austin. Did they figure out a way to let the hippies free?
Didn’t they have pumping stations there like they do on other facilities (since the Houston area is as flat as a pancake, as far as I know).
no state income tax here in Nashville but prop tax is 4.49/40% commercial, residential less...3 something on 30%
sales is 9.25%
I lived off Preston in a garage apt on an estate as a lad...dad worked for Texas Industries ..cement
plenty of kin in Dallas
83 and MOPAC are toll roads?
Both NORTHERN sections(thru Cedar Park and north of Parmer) have become Toll Roads.
Did they figure out a way to let the hippies free?
Most are too stone too care
I live about a mile from Preston Rd. Probably a bit further north than you lived during your time here. I suspect my area was prairie land back then — heck, it was prairie 10 years ago.... I love Texas, and obviously many others do also according to the vast influx of people from out of state. We have several of the fastest growing areas in the country here in the DFW area. A great place to live as long as you stay out of the Dallas proper city.
Yes they had pumping stations but all creeks and retention ponds were full..... and seriously, those same creeks and retention ponds ALWAYS get full when we have any rain, so a huge rain is positively going to fill them up! For hundreds of millions of dollars you’d think they could come up with a super duper emergency retention pond scheme.....I’m not an engineer but even I can figure out that zillions of cubic feet of concrete in a flood prone area means ya gotta come up with a plan....
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