The Bangles opened the Sam Houston Tollway with a concert way back in the 80's.
Tollbooths were supposed to come down once the road was paid for. They're still there and with fare increases.
We pay massive taxes and the result is poor roads so the gov’t employee gets fat pensions.
The gov’t will NOT lower taxes. The toll road will be another TAX and you can bet some of that money will be siphoned into insiders pockets.
double dipping
That’s all this amounts to.
It’s your wallet folks. If you like paying gas taxes and tolls too, then you should be happy as pigs in slop.
The Bangles opened the Sam Houston Tollway with a concert way back in the 80's.
Tollbooths were supposed to come down once the road was paid for. They're still there and with fare increases.
Forbes is part of the open borders cabal.
I loathe all of these public-private deals, whether it is selling off our existing highways, farming out traffic ticket revenue schemes, selling public streets, handing over the reigns (and revenue) from our parks and convention centers, it is all globalist sweetheart cronyism. Feh.
The one thing Dallas did in the 70s was to take all of the major roads going north and south and turn them into six lanes with a boulevard in the middle. That has done a lot to alleviate traffic congestion across the city.
Roads are a necessity of life and commerce and they need to be paid for, both in terms of actual construction and routine maintenance. Taxing those who use them seems like a reasonable approach to me.
The tolls in Houston are certainly not majority under $1.
And by the way, the state of Texas can’t ever finish the I-35 highway segment between Waco and Dallas, but somebody has been getting rich off of that for decades. You’d have to be an idiot to trust the Texas government to do the right thing at this point in time. Our previous governor was hellbent on making a lot of private companies (donors) rich off of Texans with tollroads.
Delaware Route 1 bump
Why should granny pay for someone else’s birth control pills? Why should non-drivers pay for a highway? Why should your property taxes pay for a stranger’s use of your local road?
Texas has retired toll roads once completely paid.
This model should be in use everywhere. Public roads still exist, but you can pay a small amount and get better road speed.
If they go to toll roads or, like Oregon, to metering (did that ever go past proposal), shouldn’t they then drop gas taxes and other taxes that were supposed to pay for the roads and were instead used elsewhere?
How can you shutter a highway? I mean, once it is built you can’t unbuild it? Am I mistaken?