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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Transportation “bank” gets Senate approval
Texas Monthly blog
posted by Patricia Kilday Hart at 12:45 PM
The Texas Senate just gave unanimous approval to Sen. John Carona’s SB 1350, which sets up the Texas Transportation Revolving Fund — a transportation “bank,” really — that will leverage $1 billion in transportation bonds [...]

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Bills filed to stop ‘double dipping’ on private toll roads
By David Tanner
Landline Magazine
April 27, 2009
U.S. senators have filed a pair of bills to stop private-sector toll operators from double dipping into the pockets of taxpayers.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association applauded the move, saying the bills filed by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, [...]

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This demonstrates the complete HIGHWAY ROBBERY taking place all over Texas. Not only do they want to toll our existing highways, now even new highways built and 100% paid for with gas taxes are also being turned into TOLL ROADS. Even worse, the money they’ll make off this road that’s already paid [...]

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Airport Check-in: Chicago Midway won’t be privatized
By Roger Yu, USA TODAY April 26, 2009
•Chicago’s plan to privatize Midway Airport has collapsed due to private investors’ inability to raise enough money amid the rough economy. Late last year, a consortium of investors, led by Citigroup’s Citi Infrastructure Investors, agreed to pay the [...]

Guess we’re getting under the Chairman’s skin….
TOTAL CONTEMPT FOR TAXPAYERS
Carona in a ‘Ted Houghton’ moment…
“…your small organization doesn’t represent the views of all Texans”
First we get called bigots by a Transportation Commissioner, (remember Ted Houghton calling us all “bigots”? View it here), now the Senate Transportation Committee Chairman John Carona hurls belittling comments at TURF’s [...]

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TURF Founder to address the San Antonio Tea Party

San Antonio, TX, April 15, 2009 – TURF Founder, Terri Hall, addressed thousands in attendance at the San Antonio Tea Party today at the Alamo. The event hosted Glenn Beck, Ted Nugent, and slew of concerned citizens speaking out against unresponsive government and runaway taxation and [...]

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DISSOLVE THE RMA!
TURF/Toll Party
Comments to Bexar County Commissioners
April 7, 2009
The Alamo RMA is on life support. After spending tens of millions of taxpayer money, they have not one thing to show for it but a trail of dishonesty, and abuse of taxpayer money on every front like its 411 on 281 propaganda campaign and [...]

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April 06, 2009
Opening the door to more private toll road contracts (UPDATE)
By Peggy Fikac – Houston Chronicle
Transportation officials could enter into new agreements with private companies to operate toll roads – with restrictions – under a pair of bills approved today by the Texas Senate.
The measures, which still need House consideration, [...]

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Senate poised to hand public freeways to private toll operators

(Austin, TX, April 1, 2009) Texans don’t want their PUBLIC highway system sold to the highest bidder, nor do they want corporate-run toll roads that cost commuters 75 cents a mile to get to work. Private toll road contracts are due to sunset this fall. [...]

TURF Legislative BulletinHB 2929/SB 17
March 31, 2009
Protecting the public interest is PARAMOUNT! How we do that is the open question here today.
We have some concerns with HB 2929/SB 17 as drafted. CDAs need to go away completely. CDAs are almost universally opposed wherever we go in Texas, they cost 50% more, are failing all over [...]