Even residents who want Wurzbach Pkwy finished admit this is a bad case of misplaced priorities. Even a casual observer can see the traffic is far more acute on 281, 1604 than Wurzbach. TxDOT is advancing Wurzbach for Prop 12 bonds BEFORE the MPO has even formulated a project priority list to submit for Prop [...]

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This is punishment for Texans daring to slay the Trans Texas Corridor, TTC-35 project. As retaliation, Rick Perry’s Transportation Commission is going to use more than half of the Prop 12 bonds to expand I-35 (the parts that aren’t even the most congested as they are in Austin and DFW) since he [...]

Link to article here. Hank Gilbert is a Board member for Texas TURF. He’s fought alongside us to stop the Trans Texas Corridor and toll road proliferation for more than 4 years. He was instrumental in KILLING private toll road contracts (where they sell our TX roads to the highest bidder on Wall Street and [...]

In a not so veiled threat, the freshman commissioner on the Bexar County Commissioners Court, Kevin Wolff, whose father is pro-toll County Judge Nelson Wolff, is publicly attacking the senior Commissioner on the Court, Tommy Adkisson, for what Wolff calls “severely lacking” and “myopic” leadership of the MPO, and threatened to remove him as Chair [...]

More details to come, but here’s the list of the MPO members who voted to toll your EXISTING FREEWAYS despite 800 people packing the room and one hundred testifying AGAINST tolls. In total there was 5 and a half hours of testimony against tolling our existing freeways, 13 MPO Board members still voted in favor. [...]

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Board must vote down NEW taxes to drive on 281, 1604
By Terri Hall
Published in Express-News & the Examiner
Oct 25, 2009
What began as a taxpayer revolt like the Boston Tea Party over four years ago known as the San Antonio Toll Party (later going statewide as Texas TURF), will culminate in a [...]

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Senate Transportation Chair John Carona: Modestly raising the gas tax “is the most fiscally conservative way to build our Texas roads.”
Raise the gasoline tax?
Texas Monthly
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
posted by paulburka at 4:13 PM
In the comments to my earlier post, “Dewhurst hits bottom,” referring to the light gov’s op-ed piece in today’s [...]

Link to article here. In such an obvious tax grab, Houstonites can only get access to congestion relief if they have 3 or more people in their cars or if a single occupancy driver PAYS A TOLL for 100% paid for lanes. It’s all about big government show-me-the-money revenue-generating schemes.
TransCore has $38.7m construction, $8.46m/yr [...]

Let’s keep the hogs at the public trough from raising our taxes by pushing to impose tolls on existing freeways for their personal profiteering! Fight back by emailing the MPO here. Phone numbers to elected officials on the MPO and information on the October 26 MPO meeting where they’ll decide whether or not to keep [...]

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Prop 11 stirs eminent domain debate
10/17/2009
By KELLEY SHANNON  / Associated Press
A proposition banning governments from taking Texans’ property for private development is last on the Nov. 3 ballot but is getting ample attention from [...]