Think I am kidding? Read the Dallas News Transportation blog article about the proposed North Tarrant Express. Our pals at foreign owned Cintra has secured funding for the $2 Billion project to rebuild portions of Loop 820 in Fort Worth and SH 183. $573 Million in taxpayer funds will be allocated to the toll road project. Cintra will also be rebuilding the 635 loop in Dallas at a later date and tacking on toll lanes to that as well.
When did it become ok to sell our roads? When did it become ok for our tax dollars to fund toll projects, which are supposedly going to the government to build free roads? It would be interesting to know how much of the $573 Million will be used to build or rebuild the free lanes as opposed to the toll portion. And how do the Dallas police and firemen feel about their pension fund money ($43 Million) being sunk into a toll road project?
NO new free lanes will be added to either project, but tolls lanes will be. The DMN likes to explain to us that people in Los Angeles pay $1 per mile on some roads to get through busy rush hour traffic, but they fail to mention Californians make more money than we do. The Regional Transportation Council here has capped the rates at 75 cents per mile, but that may change if it proves to be a money maker.
Yet another example of out of control government supporting corporations at the taxpayer's expense. If the candidates who want to be the next Governor or State Legislators in Texas want our vote, they need to take this seriously in 2010.
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