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    Maybe this will spawn a new line of practice for attorneys. "Burdened by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF UNPAID TOLLS? Call me, I guess. man, I don't know if I can get you off"

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    Cons utional Amendment will be on the November 2014 Ballot to take funds that are generated by Severance Tax on projects like Eagle Ford Shale that are going to the Rainy Day fund (about $2.5 billion/year) and use 50% of it to go towards transportation funds (and specifically prohibits their use on toll projects).

    So, make sure to go vote on November 4, 2014

    good.

    the fact that they have to make it an actual amendment is funny. when you have ing assholes like Rick Perry and his cronies in charge, I guess its what you have to do though.

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    It's not meeting goals but Texas is subsidizing it just like the small government rugged individualist risk/reward state it is.

    We should just make it free for trucks forever if we're just eliminating the operators risk anyway.

    I wonder how closer they would be to meeting goals if they were actually able to collect all owed tolls.

    At least its not basically getting ready to go under by under use, like the South portion.

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    so rainy day fund was intended to pay for road damage from industrial activity? rain does help traffic degrade the road
    Industrial Activity pays extra taxes to the state in the form of Severance Taxes.

    All that money goes into Rainy Day Fund.

    So yes, I would expect the Rainy Day fund to take care of road damage caused by Industrial uses when the Industrial industries put the ing money there to ing start with.

    So ing obtuse.

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    Maybe this will spawn a new line of practice for attorneys. "Burdened by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF UNPAID TOLLS? Call me, I guess. man, I don't know if I can get you off"

    Settle for a fraction of the amount owed!

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    naming and shaming toll non-payers in Illinois

    Some firms cry foul as Tollway posts 'super scofflaw' list


    The roster of 157 companies have amassed outstanding missed tolls and penalties totaling almost $3.7 million.

    A trucking company based in the southwest suburbs that owes the Illinois Tollway almost $215,000 in unpaid tolls and fines leads a list of "super scofflaws" that the toll road agency debuted on its website Wednesday.

    The roster of 157 companies has amassed unpaid missed tolls and penalties totaling almost $3.7 million, with some violations dating back as long as 10 years, according to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.

    http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...s-transponders


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    naming and shaming toll non-payers in Illinois

    Some firms cry foul as Tollway posts 'super scofflaw' list


    The roster of 157 companies have amassed outstanding missed tolls and penalties totaling almost $3.7 million.

    A trucking company based in the southwest suburbs that owes the Illinois Tollway almost $215,000 in unpaid tolls and fines leads a list of "super scofflaws" that the toll road agency debuted on its website Wednesday.

    The roster of 157 companies has amassed unpaid missed tolls and penalties totaling almost $3.7 million, with some violations dating back as long as 10 years, according to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.

    http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...s-transponders

    Pay your ing bills deadbeats.

    I have zero problem with this , if you refuse to pay for services that are at cost, then you should be shamed.

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    Cons utional Amendment will be on the November 2014 Ballot to take funds that are generated by Severance Tax on projects like Eagle Ford Shale that are going to the Rainy Day fund (about $2.5 billion/year) and use 50% of it to go towards transportation funds (and specifically prohibits their use on toll projects).

    So, make sure to go vote on November 4, 2014
    I did not realize this. Thanks for the heads up.

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    I have run the toll road a couple of times for free when they were
    doing road work on 35 in Austin. They had signs out for take the toll road
    for free because of the road work. It's kind of out of the way but it's 80mph
    and a DPS car hiding every mile down the road.
    Don't have a toll tag but they will send you a bill in the mail when
    I went to the Grand Prix track last year.

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    I don't mind toll roads as long as they have booths and don't send you ridiculous bills in the mail. If I use a toll road, I want to either give a dollar or two to a human being at a booth or put some quarters in a machine and be on my way. I don't want to get anything in the mail about owing 10,20, or 50 dollars for driving 5 miles on a toll road.

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    lol privatization of infrastructure

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    lol privatization of infrastructure
    It's ed up. It used to be that sci-fi wrote about corporate run prisons. Need to have PPV deathmatches and we can go full on Running Man.

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    I don't mind toll roads as long as they have booths and don't send you ridiculous bills in the mail. If I use a toll road, I want to either give a dollar or two to a human being at a booth or put some quarters in a machine and be on my way. I don't want to get anything in the mail about owing 10,20, or 50 dollars for driving 5 miles on a toll road.
    The first scenario is a state run road, the second is a privately run road.

    LOL, GOP

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    Privatization FAIL: Firm that runs Indiana Toll Road files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

    The company that operates the Indiana Toll Road filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, though Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said in a statement Monday drivers of the route through northern Indiana can expect “business as usual.”Debt-ridden ITR Commission Co., a spawn of the Spanish-Australian company Cintra-Macquarie, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago in a prepackaged plan to restructure its approximate $6 billion debt.

    The company in 2006 paid $3.8 billion for a 75-year lease of the road that runs between the Illinois and Ohio state lines, but the toll revenue failed to meet company expectations.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...y?detail=email

    Indiana being one of the lesser known, but deeply RED, AND NASTY, STATES.

    Repug MISgovernance y'all, it's the ONLY way Repugs govern!





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