The Denver Post did a multi-part expose’ on toll roads that was also highlighted on Pat Driscoll’s blog here.
Read this very crucial series here:
Suspicious money trail
Oregon’s fee experiment
Paved with bad projections
Eminent domain abuse
Risky financial scheme only benefits the few

Link to article here.
The real cost of toll roads could be American lives
By Jim Hall
May 25, 2006
USA Today
As you hit the roads this Memorial Day weekend, you might notice that you’re paying more to drive. And no, I don’t mean for gas.
All over the country, state governments are building new toll roads and privatizing existing [...]

Link to article here.
Gas-price impact on toll roads feared
05/24/2006
By Patrick Driscoll
Express-News Staff Writer
Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson doesn’t care much for toll roads anyway, but now he has a new worry.
Perennially high gas prices could prove to be a sure damper for growing traffic congestion as motorists flee to buses, double up more often in [...]

U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Highways
Financing Highway Infrastructure
Through Public Private Partnerships
Wednesday, May 24th @ 9:30 AM
Room 2167, Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. – A Congressional hearing on Wednesday will focus on the potential for utilizing public private partnerships to help meet future highway infrastructure financing needs. The hearing by the U.S. House [...]

The intent can’t be any clearer, our government intends to sell Texas to the highest bidder, regardless of the consequences like the highest possible tolls for our citizens, loss of control, foreign management of our public infrastructure, and the secret contracts (see this and this).
TxDOT
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
June 5, 2006
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
32 Old Slip [...]

CHAIRMAN RICHARD PEREZ MAKES ADKISSON JUMP THROUGH SPECIAL HOOPS
Apparently MPO Chair Councilman Richard Perez, has a different set of rules for Commissioner Adkisson to place an item on the agenda than for TxDOT, school districts, and other parties who get agenda items placed on the MPO agenda without having to bring it to the Board [...]

And I thought toll roads were safer?

Link to Texas Insider here.
More examples of government waste on the taxpayers’ dime! This time it’s state employees filling up their gas tanks at our expense. We’re supposed to trust these people? What happened to Reagan’s wise policy to ” trust but verify”?
A Few Gallons on the State’s Dime
by Drew Gaut, Evergreen Freedom Foundation
Published: 05-22-06
With [...]

Link to article here.
Note: The article states that TxDOT only plans to generate enough revenue from the toll roads to equal a 2 cent gas tax hike! So why are they building these behemoth corridors with more lanes than we need, and charging us nearly twice as much to build, maintain and operate toll roads [...]

Barron’s Toll Article published May 8, 2006.
This cover story hits the nail on the head when it says: “America’s toll roads, better known for political patronage than for strong business and financial management, suddenly are HOT assets.” Yep, as we’ve contended all along, this is about a money grab and greedy politicians fleecing the taxpayers [...]