As reported in the Waxahachie Daily Light, February 28, 2007:
“The Australian, a newspaper based in Sydney, described Texas as ‘the toll road El Dorado’ in a recent online article that also referenced ‘vast toll road riches up for grabs in Texas.’ A Spanish term, El Dorado means “the golden one” and typically is used as [...]

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State audit critical of Trans-Texas Corridor proposal
By David Tanner
Landline Magazine February 28, 2007
Texas Gov. Rick Perry continually states that the Trans-Texas Corridor will be a cost-effective project for Texans with the private sector paying the bulk of the bills. But last week, the Texas State Auditor’s [...]

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Toll rates to increase so high, state leaders can’t even say
Texans can expect to pay more to drive on state-run toll roads — a lot more.
Houston Chronicle
February 27, 2007
But just how much more, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst can’t say because of confidentiality agreements that the Texas Department of Transportation [...]

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Finance chairman warns of political force against reform
By Laylan Copelin
Austin American Statesman
February 27, 2007
Fearing that state officials lack the collective will to act, the Senate Finance Committee chairman said this morning that three state agencies must be reined in despite the embarrassment it may cause.
Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, cited the Texas [...]

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Note how the reporter buries the FACT that 121 was already built with gas tax dollars and has now been hawked by Perry’s little council to the highest bidder…no surprise that it’s Cintra. This is DOUBLE TAXATION and Senator Carona notes it does include a non-compete clause prohibiting the [...]

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Road Kill
by Eileen Welsome
Texas Observer
Feb. 27, 2007
Although the current Legislative session is only a few weeks old, Ric Williamson, the embattled chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, has already incurred the wrath of numerous state lawmakers intent on curbing the Department of Transportation’s plans to pave the state with toll roads [...]

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It’s one thing to build and maintain roads, it’s another to engage in sweetheart deals that enrich private corporations while infinitely sticking it to the taxpayers who own the aforementioned assets. TxDOT is clearly no longer about building and maintaining roads and facilitating getting people from Point A to Point B as [...]

San Antonio’s State Representative David Leibowitz has filed a similar bill. Can you feel the momentum? Kolkhorst has been working with one of our partner groups, Corridor Watch.org, to craft this legislation. Contact your representatives and make sure these bills get to the floor for a vote and PASS!
Kolkhorst bill would halt highway proposal
The Huntsville [...]

It shouldn’t surprise anybody by now that TxDOT has lied to the public. Haven’t we all heard the oft repeated claim that when they convert existing roads into tollways we’ll have as many free lanes as exist today per state law? Well, next to one of the recently opened toll roads in Austin, motorists had [...]

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My mother called it LYING when someone deliberately fails to tell to the truth, and, in fact, tells someone the opposite of what is true. That’s what TxDOT has done not only with the figures for the state’s transportation “needs,” but also regarding the use of taxpayer money for the [...]