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To: BobL

No different than what Governor Perry wanted to do to Texas.
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The TTC (Trans-Texas Corridor) that was proposed was not and Interstate highway. It would have been INTRAstate.

So... No, Perry did not propose tolls on Interstates in Texas, AFAIK.


79 posted on 04/29/2014 9:35:35 PM PDT by octex
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To: octex

“So... No, Perry did not propose tolls on Interstates in Texas, AFAIK.”

Actually, that was part of it. Specifically the TTC plan had the state request permission from the feds for “tolling on sections of Interstate Highways”. It wasn’t anymore specific than that. But it made sense - there was no any private trucker would pay close to $1.00 per mile to go on those private roads, unless he was “encouraged” to do so. Unfortunately, the last time I looked, the official TTC plan had been sanitized from the web.

Perry also tried that stunt on a several state freeways (i.e., converting them to toll roads), but thankfully got an earful. The one case where his people were lucky to make it back to Austin alive was Highway 249 in Northwest Houston. It is/was a freeway, and they wanted to extend it north. So they wanted to toll the existing freeway first to pay for the extension. In the end, they got the message, and only tolled the extension.


93 posted on 04/30/2014 5:12:49 AM PDT by BobL
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