Tag Archives: Toll Roads

Roger Baker :
METRO | Risky business in Central Texas: The toll road bond gamble

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Thorne Dreyer

Wall Street won’t insure the new CTRMA toll road debt at an affordable cost because of its high risk. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | September 14, 2015 AUSTIN — The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, or CTRMA, … Continue reading →

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Roger Baker :
Texas Toll Road 183-A: The economics and the special interests

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Shrinking traffic increases could mean bond default problems for US 183-A. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | February 18, 2009 The road lobby operates as a sort of well-funded shadow government, organized to overcome citizen opposition to unpopular … Continue reading →

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Roger Baker :
Texas toll roads: Feds must take lead

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Our national transportation infrastructure crisis is now so serious and the funds are so short of the scale of the problem that it is absolutely going to take a comprehensive federal approach rather than a state approach to get anywhere. … Continue reading →

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Texas Toll Road Soup : The Environment, Federal Funding and Peak Oil

Posted on November 28, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

U.S. 281 N Toll Road near San Antonio. ‘”It’s been obvious to us from day one that TxDOT was willing to do and say anything to get a toll road on U.S. 281,” said Terri Hall of Texans Uniting for … Continue reading →

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Austin : Toll Road Situation a Mess

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Transportation policy: CAMPO about to make a big mistake.By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November 17, 2008 AUSTIN — The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO) may be about to make a great historic mistake in transportation policy; … Continue reading →

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Toll Roads : Soon to be Yesterday’s News?

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Toll road protest in California earlier this year.‘Ordinary people will look back on this era, shake their heads in wonder and ask: how on earth did anyone ever think toll roads were sexy?’By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading →

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Texas : Raiding Pension Funds to Build Toll Roads

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

Northbound Texas Toll 130 at the Exit 426 off-ramp. This toll road northeast of Austin opened for traffic in 2006.‘An irresponsible and immoral idea”By Paul Burka / August 23, 2008 I doubt whether Rick Perry, David Dewhurst, or Tom Craddick … Continue reading →

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Austin and US 290 E : You Can’t Get There From Here

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Thorne Dreyer

A little historical foreplay: 1971 Plans for the US 290/2222 interchange. Proposed toll road: ‘The public hearing was set up and designed as an exercise in intimidation’ By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / August 13, 2008 The conduct … Continue reading →

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