Houston Chronicle: Stimulus to subsidize toll roads

[AntiChrist]

Better roads make people want to spend more money. Wait and see.

[Winehole23]

AntiChrist with a sly topical innuendo and an slightly ominous wait and see. It's improving.

[spurster]

Toll roads are fine if the money goes back to Texas where maybe it will do some good. Part of the outrage about some of TXDOT plans is to privatize it, to big campaign contributors, I suppose.

[Lebowski Brickowski]

so gas taxes pay for roads... now stimulus inflation (tax) will pay for roads ... and finally -- we'll get to pay tolls too!

How many times over can we get ed?

[Winehole23]

How many times over can we get ed?

Rhetorical, right?

[Indazone]

oh crap spend more money to make more money. The Toll rolls are a new tax on the American people.

[coyotes_geek]

so gas taxes pay for roads... now stimulus inflation (tax) will pay for roads ... and finally -- we'll get to pay tolls too!

How many times over can we get ed?

No different than having income taxes taken out of your paycheck so that when you go buy something you pay the corporate income taxes that get passed along in the cost of whatever it is you're buying, and then pay sales tax on top of that.

[CubanMustGo]

Roads = jobs and useful infrastructure.

Using the stimulus money for toll roads is horrible though. Finish the ing flyover at 290 and I35 first, idiots!

Which one? There are two, you know.

They announced a little while back that funding had been found to complete the 290-W (Ben White) / I-35 interchange, but not 290-E (2222) / I-35, or 183 / I-35, or Toll 45 / I-35, or ...

Austin is the only major city I've seen that never builds complete four-way interchanges. I think the only one we have is Mopac / 183. Must be all those Aggie engineers at TxDOT sticking it to us.

[Winehole23]

Must be all those Aggie engineers at TxDOT sticking it to us.

[coyotes_geek]

For those interested in seeing what TxDOT wants to do with the stimulus money.......

ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-...ist_030509.pdf

[ChumpDumper]

Which one? There are two, you know.

They announced a little while back that funding had been found to complete the 290-W (Ben White) / I-35 interchange, but not 290-E (2222) / I-35, or 183 / I-35, or Toll 45 / I-35, or ...

That's the main one, but yeah, they're all stupid.

Austin is the only major city I've seen that never builds complete four-way interchanges. I think the only one we have is Mopac / 183. Must be all those Aggie engineers at TxDOT sticking it to us.

Even that one sucks because the most critical parts of it (southbond Mopac and northbound 183) are choked off to two lanes to accommodate the ramps.

[Winehole23]

For those interested in seeing what TxDOT wants to do with the stimulus money.......

ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-...ist_030509.pdf

The pernt. Thanks, CG.

567,717,174 recommended ARRA dollars and nearly 1.5 bil in construction costs.

Almost half of ARRA funds go to a "D/FW connector."