An article in the Express-News today (read it here) addresses the need for government agencies to release public records more easily, except when you’re TxDOT! Here’s my letter to the reporter and submitted as a Letter to the Editor…
I appreciated your article on Open Records. If you’d like a glaring example of violation of Open [...]

There will be lots more where this came from…because TxDOT broke the LAW!
See the article in the Express-News.
WOAI News.

Congratulations to the army of volunteers and citizens who made this legal action possible! We’re all in your debt! TxDOT and our elected leaders who have failed us will now have to answer to a Judge for their inexplicable behavior of attempting to put a 16 lane toll corridor over our sole source of water [...]

Link to Express-News article here.
Dave Pasley: S.A. needs more roads, not toll booths
12/21/2005
By Dave Pasley
The only thing left to debate about the fix for traffic congestion in the U.S. 281 and Loop 1604 corridors on the North Side is how to pay for more lanes in the existing roadway alignments. It’s either tolls [...]

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Governor’s response to concerned citizens

Here’s how this letter is misleading to the public.
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Right out the gate he claims the non-toll lanes we drive on today will not be tolled. THIS IS FALSE! There is NO WAY they can lay 8 toll lanes in the current [...]

When it comes to finding the motivation behind the tolling efforts we have to just follow the money trails…
ZACHRY JR, H B – CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD – ZACHRY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
H B ZACHRY CO/ZACOPAC – Construction Company and PAC
DAWSON JR, MR & MRS EUGENE H – CIVIL ENGINEER with PAPE-DAWSON ENGINEERS
LOEFFLER JONAS & TUGGEY – [...]

Link to article here.
Toll roads with a cash-out option
Governments look at leasing highways to private sector
By Dennis Cauchon
12/15/05
USA TODAY
State and local governments are singing a new tune in operating toll roads: selling or leasing them for cash and letting private companies run them.
The governments plan to use money from the transactions to build new roads, [...]

It’s always interesting to watch a politician who has sold out his/her constituents in favor of special interests back pedal in an election year…Rep. Carter Casteel, District 73, is officially one of them. She’s on Mike Krusee’s Transportation Committee, voted to toll us for FREEways we’ve already paid for, voted AGAINST accountability to the voters [...]

Another display of sheer unbridled power today at the Alamo RMA (tolling authority appointed by Bexar County Commissioners). Business as usual for them, astounding display of total disregard for the public interest for us! The Board unanimously voted to allocate $300,000 of public money for a PR campaign to push tolls on San Antonians (who [...]

With the exception of one letter whose author seems to misunderstand the lawsuit to stop 281, the Letters to the Editor in the Express-News today hit all the major points! The message is getting out there, thanks to all of YOU!
As to Peggy’s concerns…TxDOT has not complied with existing law and they have FAILED [...]