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Lawmakers push privatized toll roads, putting affordable travelout of
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:52:25 -0400, "C. E. White"
> wrote: > >"Ashton Crusher" > wrote in message .. . >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:03:51 -0400, "C. E. White" >> > wrote: >> >>> > wrote in message ... >>>> reach. >>>> >>>> http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/r...?ArtNum=305224 >>>> >>>> Don't Mess With Texas! >>>> cuhulin >>> >>>The great thing about toll roads is not only do state governments not have >>>to spend gas tax revenue on them, they still get to collect gas tax >>>revenue >>>from drivers that use them. Sort of a double bonus... >>> >>>Ed >>> >> >> For most of the Toll roads you've been screwed up front when the state >> gave away billions in land for $1. No one could afford the tolls if >> the value of the land was included in them. > >That does not appear to be the cae for the extortion road they are building >in my area. While the state is turning over some land previously purchased >for the right of way (when it was planned to be a normal "free" road), the >budget also includes significant dollars for additional land purchases. And >the buisness case presented looks great - to great in fact. It appears they >are going to charge tolls about 50% higher than necessary to cover the >actual cost of building and maintaining the raod. The tolls are not being >based on covering costs, they are being based on collecting the maximum >revenue. This seems criminal to me. I assume the profits are going to line >the pockets of the poiticians that voted to divert money from the highway >trust fund to other uses and then claimed there wasn't enough money to build >needed roads... > >Ed > I was talking about when they convert existing roads. If it's out in sparsely populated areas they might be able to make a go of it as long as there are no good alternatives. |
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