11/10/2005

TxDOT to county: SH 121 is ours! (what local control?)

"It's real frustrating that they would put through charade of encouraging local control and ask for us to come up with their own plan if not going to consider it," said Plano Mayor Pat Evans

at 11/10/2005

3 comments:

Sal Costello said...

Toll letter found in Dallas Morning News today...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/letters/stories/DN-north_letters_11edi.ART.North.Edition2.e17792d.html

Toll road scheme?

I have said all along that turning State Highway 121 into a toll road was never about getting it built sooner – I always figured the plan was tied into the Trans-Texas Corridor. Gov. Perry knew that the corridor would not make money, so he wanted to assure the investors that they would have profitable projects to make up the difference.

This should be on the front page of The Dallas Morning News. Also, Fort Worth is starting to face toll roads on State Highway 183, and they are starting to fight.

Sharon Overall, Plano

7:23 AM, November 11, 2005
Sal Costello said...

LETTER TO Dallas News EDITOR...from Peter

In response to your search for Dallas Morning News Texan of Year 2005, "a Texan (or Texans) who has had uncommon impact; who exemplifies Texas traits of trailblazing, independence and staring down adversity; and who has affected or influenced lives." My nomination HAS to be Gov. Rick "Special Interest" Perry, who single-handedly has affected more human lives than the Bubonic Plague, a.k.a., The Black Death did during the 13th Century when it ravaged throughout Europe and killed one-fourth that area's population.

During his 5-year term as governor, Perry has thrown into utter chaos the affairs of state government and the lives of most Texas families.

Some of Perry's transgressions include:


* Continuing the freeze of gasoline taxes to ensure that there is a shortage of building and maintaining roadways
* Deregulating tuition at higher education institutions so that only the more affluent children can receive a quality education, after which he continues to permit those same institutions to receive a large percentage of the gasoline taxes that are supposed to go to building and maintaining roadways
* Creating such turmoil and special interest politics at the Capitol that legislators found themselves stuck in a major quagmire and couldn't resolve ANY of the urgent issues
* Permitting the ongoing travesty of inadequately financing public education and demanding the focus on TAKS testing and pushing for a school voucher system; ensuring that teacher pay is one of the lowest in the nation
* Enabling lax legislation and campaign contributions to permit the overnight doubling of home insurance costs
* Cutting urgently needed social service programs for children
* Allowing the health care industry to overcharge Texas families on their costs for health insurance
* Overburdening Texas homeowners with astronomical property taxes, promising relief but delivering nothing
* Perry along with special interests are pushing the campaign to burden Texas families for the next century via the drive for the Trans-Texas Toll Corridor, a network of toll roads throughout the state and beyond
* Promising more jobs for Texas citizens, but providing little
* Vowing to keep the GOP platform of "NO NEW TAXES" but pushing state costs unto local governments and campaigning for toll roads; what are tolls if not new taxes?
* Permitting loose oversight of many government agencies and committees, special interest entities and individuals
* Perry has wasted more taxpayer dollars on unproductive regular and special legislative sessions than ANY previous governor in this or other state in the nation.

Reviewing the criteria above, Gov. Perry must win "hands-down" simply for affecting more lives adversely than any other candidate.

Peter Stern
Driftwood, TX 78619

9:37 AM, November 11, 2005
Sal Costello said...

THIS IS A GREAT ONE....

SAL,

Asking toll road proponents to save us from congestion is like asking the Devil to help us escape Hades!

Thanks,
Richard Reeves
RabbleRowser

5:38 PM, November 11, 2005

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