12/29/2005

CTRMA campaign: "How to Pay the Toll."

at 12/29/2005

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Sal Costello said...

These letters are printed in today's San Antonio Express-News:

How to ease congestion

Some thoughts on making U.S. 281 a toll road:

Congestion on U.S. 281 North would disappear if Encino Rio and Evans Road were made into overpasses. Tax dollars were available to do that. Why wasn't it done?

State law says existing roads cannot be made into toll roads. Yet that is being done on U.S. 281 with the fiction that access lanes will suffice to replace the existing free lanes. The courts need to rule against such perfidy.

Why won't the powers that be put toll roads in Bexar County to a vote? The answer, of course, is that the citizens do not support toll roads.

Ed McGann



Vote out toll supporters

As a resident of Stone Oak, I would like to clarify my position on toll roads to our representatives in local and state government. I am 100 percent against tolls on U.S. 281 and Loop 1604. These roads have been built with our tax money, yet they want to charge us to drive on them.

There are cheaper alternatives, such as creating overpasses and cloverleaves, and as a matter of fact, the whole toll issue smells of profiteering and government corruption. I do not believe toll roads will alleviate the traffic congestion.

The proposed plan is to force people to either pay the toll or use the current frontage road. Who came up with this brilliant proposal? Aren't gas prices high enough? On top of that, I will have to pay a per-mile toll to go to work and back? To go to the grocery store? To go to lunch? To pick up my kid from school?

I propose that we vote out these characters in office who support tolling our roads. When our beloved governor runs for re-election, he can count my vote against him. This applies to all elected officials who want to jam this toll issue down my throat. I will not stand and let the government decide what to do with my hard-earned money.

Juan Noval

8:28 AM, December 30, 2005

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