Toll Roads are known for being more dangerous everyday because of collisions at toll plazas (see links on right side of blog), but for an agency to fail to deliver the basic need of salt on an icy day is the ultimate “bureaucracy costs everyone more” story.
From Statesman 2007 "Storm Blog" yesterday at 4:42pm:
In Williamson County, city and county trucks covered most bridges with sand. But there were, conspicuously, a few new bridges and overpasses that remained icy: the toll roads.
On the Loop 1 and Texas 45 North overpasses and bridges - which in some places span much longer than your average cross-a-river bridge - the ice remained pure white late today. No sand or dirt in sight.
Tires, fortunately, have melted tracks for drivers to follow, but by 4:30 p.m., most of the ice remained. Maybe the tollway agency expected the traffic to melt the ice, as happened on Interstate 35. But on a holiday, especially one about a week after the Texas Department of Transportation starting charging cash customers, there aren’t enough vehicles on the toll roads to melt the ice.
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