musta changed the rearend gears cause he was only using five speeds in the tranny
Posted on 12/04/2017 7:11:42 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
People forgot the asterisk.
Or maybe they never noticed it in the first place.
The consequences of that oversight took full form about a week ago, and the result is that the prospects for several major highway projects in Central Texas and the state’s other urban centers are now uncertain.
Back during the 2013 legislative session, when Texas Department of Transportation officials and their lawmaker allies began pushing for more money through a constitutional amendment, they said that TxDOT needed an extra $5 billion a year to fight traffic congestion. Just give us that much money and all will be well, they said.
Except, they added — sotto voce, at least in political terms — a caveat, that asterisk. They said, $5 billion more annually will do it, but only if you let us keep the “tools” we have now. Meaning, the ability to borrow money for some big urban projects and to charge tolls to pay it back.
But the $5 billion is what everybody heard, and that became the political message when what had become Proposition 1 was before voters in November 2014. Prop 1 passed, giving TxDOT a significant piece of that funding boost.
The Legislature, and voters, did the rest in 2015. Lawmakers ended the “diversion” to other state departments of about $600 million a year in gas taxes, returning it to TxDOT. And then voters in 2015 passed yet another constitutional amendment under Proposition 7, giving TxDOT a minimum of an additional $2.5 billion a year for roads.
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Were there no cameras on arches over the road, to take pics of the plates?
What company names were they; freepmail to me if needed...
Wait until the Monroe Bypass opens!
I cannot imagine living in such conditions. South Carolina is still relatively low density but even here the traffic is not to my liking. I would rather live in the middle of “nowhere” than fight bumper to bumper traffic. There is absolutely nothing in any really big city to tempt me, I have spent enough time stuck in traffic in Atlanta on business in past years to make me want to move back to the dirt road.
The future apparently is to have all of us living in a human beehive, I call that HELL on Earth.
musta changed the rearend gears cause he was only using five speeds in the tranny
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