Statesman Letter to Editor: BUSTED AGAIN!

I get a kick out of the rare letter to the editor that supports the tolls on roads we've already paid for. Here's the one from today in the Statesman:

Tolls get roads built

The only thing correct in the March 3 letter to the editor, "Tolls should be the issue of the election," was the statement that, "The large network of new and upgraded highways (is) rapidly nearing completion."

That's the key. A great deal of new capacity is about to open that was built in only a few years. I keep wondering if the people complaining about toll roads have only been in the area for a short time. Maybe they weren't here or don't remember how long it took to build U.S. 183 and Ben White Boulevard.

Unlike the distortions spread around the last few years such as "double taxation," the truth is the only roads that will be tolled here are new capacity. Everyone can choose whether to use the new roads.

GRAYSON PAYNTER
Austin

Grayson fails to mention that many of the roads have been under constrcution as free roads long before the toll plan came down the pike. And, how they are 100% fully funded with our tax dollars, and how if we stop the tolls they will open as free roads.

Grayson Paynter is a hired gun. He works for TateAustin, a PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM who has a contract with the CTRMA. Here's his email address at the bottom of this Tate Austin Page. BUSTED!