In one of the best developments Texas taxpayers have had all year, the authority to enter into contracts that sell-off Texas freeways to foreign corporations, called Comprehensive Development Agreements (CDAs or PPPs), expired August 31. Spoiling the good news is the fact that about a dozen CDAs were removed from the moratorium placed on CDAs [...]

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Looks like Rick Perry’s Trans Texas Corridor is still alive and well to me…(see end of article). Also, looks like TxDOT can get FREEWAY improvements paid for when they set their minds to it. Note the many pots of money…
I-35 Strike Force Formation Discussed
August 31, 2009
Hillsboro Reporter
Staying on top of Interstate [...]

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You may remember we’ve been working with American Stewards of Liberty (formerly Stewards of the Range) on forming these subregional planning commissions all over the state, called 391 commissions. We refer to them as 391 commissions because that’s where the authority to form them comes from in the local government code. It [...]

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Hank has served on the Board of TURF for several years and has fought alongside us to STOP Rick Perry’s Trans Texas Corridor, the sale of TX roads to Spain (CDAs), and the proliferation of toll roads. He is President of the Piney Woods Subregional Planning Commission formed to stop the Trans [...]

First decode the jargon:
ARMA = Alamo Regional Mobility Authority (ARMA), a misleading name for tolling authority, whenever you hear “mobility” it’s code for tolling
MPO = Metropolitan Planning Organization is the local transportation planning board
NEPA = National Environmental Policy Act, federal law that guides environmental review for highway projects
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The RMA can’t seem to tell the truth. [...]

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See why the “open house” format is an affront to federal requirements for public involvement here.
Web Posted: 08/26/2009 12:00 CDT
Study on highway project disputed
By Josh Baugh – Express-News
The Alamo Regional Mobility Authority on Tuesday held its lone public meeting for plans to build four non-tolled direct connectors between U.S. 281 and [...]

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The RMA purposely misleads the public in this article. Read what happened when we shined the light on these falsehoods here. See the proof that shows the 281 toll road is twice the footprint of the FREEway plan at www.281OverpassesNow.com.
Web Posted: 08/23/2009
Agency ‘aggressive’ on U.S. 281 environmental review
By Josh Baugh – Express-News [...]

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Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria purchased Laredo National Bank in 2005, Compass Bank in 2007, and now Guaranty Bank in 2009. They’ve also partnered with China on a deal in 2006. Here’s the kicker, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria is a financial advisor to the parent company that owns a 100% stake in Cintra, [...]

Okay, if you thought selling our public highways to Spain using PPPs was bad, along comes a report that the FHWA, FTA, and EPA were a part of, that is advocating the government impose a 5 cent per mile minimum toll to use our EXISTING federal interstates and that it impose a 65 cent per [...]

Link to article here. This article bills this leg of the Trans Texas Corridor TTC-35 project as a way to avoid congestion to Houston when the original sales pitch for the loop was to relieve traffic on I-35 (which the segment from Georgetown to the airport has not done). However, the first leg of SH [...]