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Archive for December, 2009
Monday, December 28th, 2009
Link to article here.
NTTA leaders fear Dallas area’s toll road push moving too fast
Monday, December 28, 2009
By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER / The Dallas Morning News
As the Dallas area rushes forward in pursuit of more toll roads, warnings that it may be doing so at its own peril have been emanating from an [...]
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Toll prices in Tarrant will vary based on traffic conditions
Posted Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009
By GORDON DICKSON
gdickson@star-telegram.com
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Link to article here.
12/22/2009
Pennsylvania: Lawmakers Line Up Against Tolling Interstate Freeway
Bipartisan group of federal and state representatives from Pennsylvania lobby against plan to toll Interstate 80.
The Newspaper.com
12/22/09
Federal and state lawmakers banded together last week in an attempt to block the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from allowing the state of Pennsylvania to turn [...]
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
URGENT ACTION NEEDED IN SAN ANTONIO!
Eye-popping 37 toll projects put into local MPO plan; 18 will put TX roads under foreign control!
Vote to adopt it is Monday, December 7.
EMAIL the MPO Board here: Listen@TexasTURF.org
Urge them to…
1) REMOVE toll roads and CDAs (contracts that hand our TX roads to foreign toll operators in [...]
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UPDATE: It’s been brought to our attention that there are actually 57 toll projects in the plan. The MPO adopted the plan December 3, 2009.
Eye-popping 37 toll projects appear in MPO’s new plan, 18 to come under foreign control
Taxpayers’ revolt ahead of Monday vote
(San Antonio, TX, December 3, 2009) While San Antonians were [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Link to article here. Check out this ad that sums it all up in one snappy visual.
Perry pulling in big bucks from Austin political interests
By Wayne Slater
Dallas Morning News
November 30, 2009
While Rick Perry is bashing rival Kay Bailey Hutchison for palling around with special interests in Washington, he’s doing just fine collecting big bucks from [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Link to article here.
First, we want an end to gas tax diversions.
Second, we want a full audit and house cleaning at TxDOT (that has engaged in several illegal activities including waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money as well as being tone-deaf to the citizen opposition to toll roads). We’d ideally like to see elected [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Link to Dallas Morning News article here.
Dallas area may be first to see state’s new plan to fund toll roads
Monday, November 23, 2009
By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER / The Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN – Lawmakers might have left the Capitol earlier this year without getting much done when it comes to transportation. But they [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Grassroots conservative candidate for Texas Governor Debra Medina slams Rick Perry’s Trans Texas Corridor and usurpation of private property rights on Fox News Channel’s Freedom Watch.
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
It’s a HUGE VICTORY for taxpayers that one Bexar County toll project, Wurzbach Parkway’s completion, has been nixed and reverted back to a non-toll project. However, putting Wurzbach Pkwy’s completion above the fix to the unbearable congestion nightmare on US 281 and the west and east sides of Loop 1604 is inexplicable. On October 26, [...]
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