Congress Ave TOLL bridge?

A University of Texas, Department of Civil Engineering study, includes the following bridges as part of its toll study:

• Redbud Trail
• Loop 1
• Lamar Boulevard
• Congress Avenue
• South First Street

The UT Department of Civil Engineering gets some of it's funding from TxDOT.

TxDOT IS FAT.

TxDOT's "good old boy" network has managed to help it's contractors get fat, while we keep paying more for less. The General Accounting office of the U.S. comprehensive study shows a median cost per lane mile at 1.6 million. TxDOT's 130 just East of Austin is the largest highway project in the US and comes in at 7.6 million per lane mile.

TXDOT GETS AN "F" FOR SAFETY.

TxDOT has managed to receive it's excessive budgets and still fail Texans. In a recent Allstate Insurance Co. safest cities for driving report, 9 of the bottom 33 cities on the list are in Texas. This failure costs lives, and the responsibility lands in the lap of TxDOT.

PERRY'S TXDOT WANTS MORE MONEY.

And, now TxDOT want to get into the revenue generation business with it's recent craze to toll our freeways. They want mini-TxDOT's all over Texas to do the same. They call these mini-TxDOT's Regional Mobility Authorities, RMA's for short. Rick Perry's TxDOT is out of control. Every Texan, every Democrat and every Independent needs to step into the republican primary voting booth and vote him out.

PEOPLE LIKE BRIDGES

I can see TxDOT's thought process...Sure, people tend to like bridges. People will naturally want a dry solution to cross over some water, and they will want to bring their cars. It's a goldmine for tolls!

The UT study, "Road Pricing Simulations: Traffic, Land Use and Welfare Impacts for Austin, Texas" with Kara M. Kockelman, Ph.D., P.E. as a corresponding author, is an "interesting" read, it states. "There are many instances of bridge tolling, road tolling and cordon pricing, in the U.S. and around the world.". It fails to mention the bridges studies to be tolled are EXISTING.

In the study, you will find, "The bridges identified for tolling are those at Redbud Trail, Loop 1, Lamar Boulevard, Congress Avenue, and South First Street, henceforth referred as “Bridge Toll Candidates” as shown in Figure 1. The federally funded IH 35 bridges are also of interest but there are issues with tolling federally financed roads."

LINK: Replace Tollers