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Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
View the news report here.
If this doesn’t demonstrate that these toll plans are special lanes for the rich and powerful, then I don’t know what does. Considering that tolling authority board members who decide on toll rates (ie – TAX HIKES) to be imposed on all of us exempt themselves, the self-interest is obvious! You [...]
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Link to WOAI stories here and here.
WOAI radio in San Antonio has shut us out for many months but this week they launched the Joe Pags afternoon talk show and had Joe Krier, President of the San Antonio Greater Chamber of Commerce, San Antonio Mobility Coalition, and a pro-toll group Texans for Safe Reliable Transportation, [...]
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Link to article here.
Obituary: Trans Texas Corridor
By Roy Bragg
Express News
August 31, 2007
The Trans-Texas Corridor, a plan so flimsy and badly conceived that it attained the believability of an urban legend, died of its own greed and hubris Thursday.
Death came quietly to the ballyhooed plan — which had proposed spending billions of tax dollars to convert [...]
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Bill Molina ’84
Getting the Show on the Road
By Donna Parker
Bill Molina ’84 is an award-winning Hollywood cinematographer who toiled on film and episodic television shows such as Beverly Hills 90210, but now he is focused on ZIP codes closer to his Texas roots.
A recent winner of the Worldfest Houston Film Festival [...]
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
Link to articles here and here. Well, we ought to feel vindicated as news of what we’ve all known since Ric Williamson uttered this now famous quote, “In your lifetime, most existing roads will have tolls” (Houston Chronicle, Oct. 11, 2004)…the plan is to turn all our existing roads into toll roads and DOUBLE TAX, [...]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
It’s so basic…Bexar County can’t afford tolls. For all those who can afford them that may be business-owners, your employees can’t afford tolls even if you can. Having to pay a toll to go to work is like taking a pay cut. An employee may decide it’s not worth it to work in a tolled [...]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Link to article here. Toll Road News also told of this report earlier this year. But now the masses can learn of yet more TxDOT deception, lies, and slippery talking points.
EXCLUSIVE: Secret TexDOT Plan to Toll Existing Interstates
Internal report to Congress, obtained by 1200 WOAI news, urges Congress to ‘repeal’ laws prohibiting tolling Interstates
By [...]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Link to article here.
The Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) signed by Bush, the Prime Minister of Canada, and President of Mexico in March of 2005 is the framework for the NAFTA Superhighways, known as the Trans Texas Corridor in Texas. For more on the SPP go here.
U.S. under U.N. law in health emergency
Bush’s [...]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Link to article here.
This “story” reads more like a tolling authority and TxDOT PR puff piece than a news article. I had multiple interviews with this reporter, he came to our Toll Party meeting and heard with his own ears that our primary reason for the lawsuit is to force TxDOT to install the gas [...]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Link to article here.
News
Tarred & weathered
Inaction on 281-N put SA on freeway to double taxation
By Greg Harman 8/29/2007
No joke, U.S. 281-N is crippled.
Drivers crunch along each other in a diesel-tinged wash even as fresh cement tonnage is draped across the denuded landscape. New [...]
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