NTTA: No toll planned for Highway 161 stretch ?????

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Help understand Perry/Cintra. I think we all know???



NTTA: No toll planned for Highway 161 stretch

North Texas Tollway Authority Chairman Victor Vandergriff says his agency will not seek permission to charge tolls on a segment of free highway in Irving, as a plan floated Thursday by NTTA Executive Director Allen Clemson had suggested.

"There is no support for that," Vandergriff said late Thursday night. "It is not on our legislative agenda and hasn't been brought to the board. It will not happen."

Just hours before, Clemson had told members of a subcommittee of the Regional Transportation Council about discussions with state transportation officials about a three-mile non-tolled stretch of State Highway 161 in Irving.



http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/transportation/stories/DN-ntta_16met.ART0.State.Edition1.33a3b01.html

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1. Read between the lines

http://www.wopular.com/ntta-no-toll-planned-highway-161-stretch

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2. Election year

But the mere discussion of such a plan, one that would require legislative approval, promised to be controversial.

When asked about it Thursday, Gov. Rick Perry said he is dead set against creating an exception for the NTTA to toll the existing free highway.

Translation of Perry speak - "Damn it, nobody is supposed to steal from the taxpayers before my election. Everybody was supposed to wait for their goodies until after I take over the world!"

Perry a total jerk even uttering the words that he's opposed to tolling existing "free highways".

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3. JMO

I was thinking that perry did not want the public, NTTA, OR TXDOT having any input, say, or controll over tolling of texas public roads.

That way him and his cronys can sell public roads to Cintra spain again.

He can sell rights to operate taxpayer roads to cintra ????

Our grand kids will be paying for roads, interest, and bonds while perry cintra are operating and taking a guaranteed 15 to 20% slush return.

Somebody is getting rich off of taxpayer roads and dang sure is not the taxpayers. JMOAP

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4. Texas Gov. Rick Perry vows to stop NTTA from tolling stretch of State Highway 161 in Irving

http://www.texasturf.org/

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5. "Rick Perry vows"

That statement is an oxymoron. Perry is incapable of telling the truth or really keeping his word on anything.

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6. Perry built roads, and road debt

AAS 10/17/10
Perry built roads, and road debt

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What's interesting this time, as Perry runs for a third term against Democrat Bill White (and two lesser candidates), is that transportation policy is barely in the conversation. Interesting, because there's a good chance that when historians look back on Perry's 10-years-and-counting in the state's top political job, transportation will be where he left the deepest bootprints.

And that's for what he has done and how he did it (toll roads and debt), and for what he wanted to do but backed away from after the public and its elected representatives said no thanks.

Under Perry, if you adjust for inflation, the Texas Department of Transportation has spent almost 50 percent more each year to build new roads and repair roads than it did under George W. Bush: an average of $4.9 billion a year in constant 2010 dollars for Perry versus $3.35 billion in the Bush years.

And that doesn't count much of what the various regional mobility authorities — local toll road agencies created under Perry-backed legislation — have and will spend on new roads.

Or the billions that private toll road operators are spending on the extension of Texas 130 southeast of Austin and on several projects in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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7. Roads and freeways are only one example of how corrupt Texas government is (at all levels)

We need to fire all these Republicans at every level, no matter how "low" or seemingly inconsequential. There are 29 elected offices in Texas -- and all 29 are in Republican hands.

First and foremost in my mind: the Texas Board of Education.