TexasTollParty.com spreads to San Antonio!

Linda Curtis and I met a San Antonio couple at the Capital Rally against the Corridor some weeks ago. Since then, we've gone to San Antonio for their first meeting. That SA meeting was just last week and about 30 folks showed up. It does not sound like much, but the Blacklands had 50 for their first meeting and the next one had about 1,000. It looks like Terri and her husband are ready to rock and roll!

San Antonio's MPO meets in the middle of the day, so folks who work can't attend.

The following is from TODAY'S San Antonio Express-news:

"The Metropolitan Planning Organization, not much more than a ghost to many motorists, has suddenly been thrust into the spotlight thanks to the looming shadow of toll roads.

The planning board, which oversees local transportation projects, last year slipped about 60 miles of toll roads into its 25-year plan with nary a peep of public protest. The first 47 miles are eyed for the northern half of Loop 1604 and on U.S. 281 from the loop to Comal County.

Board Chairman Lyle Larson was the lone dissenter of the day, and at the time regurgitated his familiar speech about how state officials are shifting costs of state highways to local communities — words that he says have alienated him from state leaders such as Gov. Rick Perry....

"...This is taxation without representation, which started the Boston Tea Party and now the Texas Toll Party," said Terri Hall, a resident of Spring Branch north of San Antonio.... READ MORE HERE

Last week's San Antonio Express-News gives us a great compliment:

"Grassroots grumblings over proposed toll lanes on the North Side are like whimpers compared with fights against toll plans in other parts of Texas, but those whimpers have been heard all the way to Austin.

Battle-tested toll critics in Austin are vociferous, tireless, organized and willing to help activists here raise a ruckus...."READ MORE HERE