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Open secrets
The Cross City Tunnel scandal should lead to more public scrutiny of private infrastructure deals
By Matthew Moore
Fairfax Digital
October 31, 2005
The political train smash the Cross City Tunnel is fast resembling, one lesson is increasingly clear:
the days of secret government contracts are doomed.
The fury of motorists and taxpayers who find Bob Carr’s [...]

Union Pacific’s profits up 83%
A completely new argument being made FOR Proposition 1 is rail safety. State Representative Ruth McClendon Jones and others claim rail companies don’t have the money to move their rail lines out of urban areas. Not true, Reuters published an article stating Union Pacific’s profits are up 83%. They make twice [...]

NOTE: Ric Williamson clearly states toll revenues could be used to fund private rail relocation after the Governor promised every dollar in tolls would go to local roads (see it here). Williamson also states gas tax money will be used to fund toll roads….hence admitting their DOUBLE TAX scheme!
Measure spurs debate on funding new tracks
By [...]

Citizens demand accountability, open and responsive government
MPO TRANSPORTATION POLICY BOARD STATEMENT
October 24, 2005
Concerns about the toll plans for Bexar County and across the state have birthed a far-reaching movement that crosses party lines and socioeconomic status. Our local group has more than doubled in size in just the last 4 weeks. Everyone is affected [...]

Macquarie vulnerable, broker say
The AUSTRALIAN
Richard Gluyas and Glenda Korporaal
20oct05
INVESTOR sentiment could be turning against the “millionaires’ factory” Macquarie Bank, according to a leading firm of stockbrokers, which yesterday downgraded its rating of the nation’s largest investment bank.
Goldman Sachs JBWere said Macquarie’s recent meteoric rise, as well as its reliance on fees from specialist funds holding [...]

Found in Texas Government Insider:
Members of transportation financing, eminent domain committees named
Speaker Tom Craddick today announced the Texas House of Representatives appointees to the Study Commission on Transportation Financing and an interim committee studying the use of eminent domain power.
On the transportation financing committee, Rep. Mike Krusee of Round Rock will serve as a Joint [...]

Rep. Mike Krusee chairs the House Transportation Committee and thinks their toll proliferation plan is applying free market principles to transportation. Mr. Krusee, I have some very basic principles to share with you, so please pay attention. Free market principles cannot apply to limited public assets like roadways. We, the consumer, can’t go build a [...]

In the Express-News
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Skewed Results Leave Out the Most Pertinent Information Public Needs to Make Informed Decision About Toll Plan
San Antonio, TX, October 12, 2005 – By the Alamo RMA’s own press release revealing the results of a survey conducted by Baselice & Associates, they admit their toll plans are in trouble (though they probably don’t even know [...]

Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (Again!)
By Toll Party Founder, Sal Costello
In 2001, a Proposition was put forward to the voters that allowed the Texas Mobility Fund. Texans voted for “mobility” and Prop 15 became a constitutional amendment. Only later we found out the wolf was in sheep’s clothing.
Prop 15 ballot language did NOT tell the voter [...]