Link to editorial here.
Feds Encourage Foreign Control of U.S. Interstates
By Diane M. Grassi
The Hawaii Reporter
6/27/2006
Fifty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the 1956 National Federal-Aid Highway Act and since 1990 referred to as the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways. He authorized the connectivity of 41, 000 miles of [...]

Link to Austin-American Statesman article here.
This is beautiful! Reporter Ben Wear actually gives the Austin Toll Party credit (albeit veiled credit) for the defeat of several toll projects and the defeat of certain politicians on CAMPO.

Read Driscoll’s article with today’s developments here.
WOAI Radio report on the secret deal with comments from the Toll Party here.
Here’s the pro-toll version in Toll Road News.
Read this press release from Comptroller Carole Strayhorn in response to Perry’s “backroom” deals that benefit the few:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
STRAYHORN RIPS ANOTHER SECRET TOLL [...]

Link to article here.
Some of the best comments from citizens failed to make the story below. This article is far too tame to have really reflected the outright anger and outrage expressed by nearly all of the citizen comments. Out of more than 2 dozen speakers, only 4 spoke in favor of tolls and EVERY [...]

“No state in the nation is laying as much asphalt as Texas,” said Rick Perry in a press release dated June 26 and published in the Texas Insider touting the rapid expansion of the Katy Freeway.
Laying the most asphalt is supposed to be something to be proud of? Perhaps the aggregate industry would cheer [...]

Link to article here.
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Mexican trucks to enter U.S. freely?
Bush administration refuses to answer WND’s questions
By Jerome R. Corsi
June 27, 2006
A U.S. government agency has begun a new audit to determine if the Bush administration has resolved inspection issues that would allow Mexican trucks to enter the U.S. freely.
David Barnes, a spokesman for [...]

Link to article here
TxDOT teams up with international group on Trans-Texas Corridor
Dallas Business Journal
January 18, 2006
In a rare endorsement, the Texas Department of Transportation is joining the North America’s Supercorridor Coalition Inc., a nonprofit, international organization based in Dallas.
The members of Nasco, founded in 1994, aim to develop the highway infrastructure from Canada through the [...]

Link to Express-News article on vote here.
What does it tell you that even TxDOT voted for this? What the good guys tried to accomplish was to get a study that the MPO already conducts and has money allocated for expanded to include a study of high gas prices on the region’s transportation. The study only [...]

Link to article here.
Haven’t we had enough of developers and big business skirting out of paying for the infrastructure their expansion brings? Here’s a fresh example from Washington Mutual who is essentially threatening the city to NOT add jobs if they don’t agree to make ALL taxpayers pick-up the tab for a road expansion to [...]

Link to San Antonio Business Journal articlehere.
Some of the things the RMA says in this article are misleading. Right off the bat, it states the purpose of this survey is to demonstrate the need to finish Wurzbach. Well, yeah, everyone already knows it needs to be done. The funding has been there for over a [...]