Compare Toll Plans
Most people are familiar with the current Dallas and Houston Tollway Systems. To illustrate one problem with the Austin Plan, compare Toll Road Miles per million people: Houston has 17, the city of Dallas has 13, and Austin will have more than 113! If you look at the Dallas and Houston maps, you'll notice those cities, (as other cities with toll roads throughout the United States) have a simple loop or E/W and N/S tollways as additional "new" road options. The toll plans we all know in the past are built with investor dollars, and they complement the existing highways. The toll plans we all know in the past are built with investor dollars, are new roads, took years to carefully plan and they complement the existing highways. The Austin toll plan is built with our tax dollars and the toll roads become our existing highways. The Austin plan was rushed and approved within 3 months. If this doesn't look like a boondoggle, what does?
The Austin Toll Plan - Download Larger Map:
- Shifts allmost every local Highway to Toll Roads.
- Uses Billions of our tax dollars to finance the Toll Roads. In the past Toll Roads were built with 80% bonds...these toll roads are built with 80% of our tax dollars.
- Seizes over $100 Million of our tax financed roads/projects in Austin and converts them to Toll Roads. See .pdf
- It's not a transportation solution, it's a "Revenue Generator", a Boondoggle for special interests.
TxDOT's plan to FORCE us on to Toll Roads (see page 10 of TxDOT internal presentation)
Information Highway: "People should be concerned if they are concerned about the privacy of their location" – Lee Tien, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rick Perry, Special Interests and The Austin Toll Plan
Where is the Money?