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Note from a friend who used to love in D.C.:
Dulles Airport is connected to Washington by a toll road. The toll road authority has promised to sell $2.5 billion of new toll bonds. The money will be given to the Airport Authority to build a $5 billion light rail line connecting [...]

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07/29/2009
Board’s toll-road backers suffer loss with vote
Scott Stroud – Express-News Columnist

After taking over as chairman of the Metropolitan Planning Organization, one of several local entities with a lot to say about San Antonio’s transportation future, Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson vowed to “declare war” on gobbledygook. But when it came time to [...]

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07/28/2009
MPO boss’ power remains intact
By Josh Baugh – Express-News
Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson, a toll-road opponent and environmentalist, took over as chairman of the Metropolitan Planning Organization on Monday and dodged an attempt to dilute his agenda-setting authority.Adkisson was in line for the chairmanship two years ago but lost the position [...]

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Grassroots hail new Chair of MPO
Adkisson retains power to set agenda, declares war on toll roads
San Antonio, TX, Tuesday, July 28, 2009 – Commissioner Tommy Adkisson officially became Chair of the San Antonio-Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Monday, but not without the usual powerplays and controversy that have surrounded toll roads in San [...]

07/25/2009

Toll-road opponent set to lead MPO

By Josh Baugh – Express-News
Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson, a toll-road critic and environmentalist, is poised to lead San Antonio’s Metropolitan Planning Organization, the agency that oversees how $200 million in federal transportation funds are spent in Bexar County.Whether Adkisson’s leadership will change the MPO’s bearings, however, remains an [...]

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The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) is literally drowning in debt and can’t make it’s debt service payments without raising toll rates 32% in a down economy, yet it’s hard to feel sorry for them when they acted like high rollers on the taxpayers dime with its $42,000 junket to Austria.
The NTTA [...]

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This is a one-sided, TxDOT slanted story. When TxDOT isn’t sending the toll bills to the right address, when they send you to collections after the first notice, when they fine the owners of the vehicles and not the actual driver’s who commit the offense, and when they refuse to negotiate down [...]

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This sobering and frightening scenario is just over the horizon unless citizens wake-up and put a stop to it!
Government control goes that extra mile
By Henry Lamb
World Net Daily
July 11, 2009
Sara was late for work. The alarm clock didn’t alarm, the kids were unusually slow getting ready for school, and nothing went [...]

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Mr. “Pro-Toll Tax” and lobbyist-in-chief, Bill Noble, needs to do a simple glance at our web site to see we’re all about non-toll solutions and have offered them for years. They don’t like our solutions, so they dismiss them. However, the taxpayers deserve the most affordable transportation solutions, not the most expensive [...]

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This CBS News expose of Senator Robert Nichols’ efforts to protect private toll road investors instead of taxpayers is spot-on. However, Senator Kevin Eltife says he’s against foreign-owned toll roads on camera, but he voted FOR every bill and amendment that would hand our [...]