Perry's plan to shift all our public highways to tollways is nothing like what has happened in our country before.
Traditional tolls have been designed and built as toll roads. And, they have been built with investor dollars.
Perry's public highway tolls will hold Texans hostage to pay a toll to drive on freeways we've funded, just to go to work, school and shop. And the rates will be set by unelected people that have been found to give no-bid contracts to themselves and their pals.
The SA Texas Toll Party Director Terri Hall has some great words of wisdom on her blog:
"Mr. Krusee, I have some very basic principles to share with you, so please pay attention. Free market principles cannot apply to limited public assets like roadways. We, the consumer, can't go build a competing road if we don't like the way a private corporation builds and tolls our existing ones."
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Sunday Letter to Editor:
Austin Statesman: http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/10/16Letters_edit.html
Public doesn't want tolls
My wife and I attended the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting in Austin on Oct. 10. Most, if not all, of the CAMPO board members have been elected to represent what the majority of their constituency wants.
Since April, I have talked to hundreds of individuals in eastern Williamson County, including ranchers and farmers in the Granger and Bartlett area, and many more people from Milam County, including Thorndale, Rockdale and Cameron. No one from these communities want the Trans Texas Corridor.
Why, then, when the majority of people in Central Texas do not want this massive toll road, do officials keep on trying to shove it down our throats?
JIM STAUBER
jcstauber@sbcglobal.net
Liberty Hill
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