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Roger Baker :
Texas toll roads: Feds must take lead

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

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

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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Texas : Raiding Pension Funds to Build Toll Roads

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

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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