Sen. Williams scolds TxDOT last Wednesday for "Picking Our Pockets" with unnecessarily high toll rates.
3/21/07, Sen. Tommy Williams, of the Senate Transportation Committee scolded TxDOT after commissioner Ted Houghton said "We need to extract as much capital out of the ground as possible". The comment offended Sen. Williams because it illustrated what is wrong with the arrogant agency: TxDOT feels it is more important to boost private company (Cintra) toll profits than serve the public.
The SH 121/Cintra deal was just made, and it's become public knowledge that TxDOT told the local tolling authority that it could NOT submit a bid for SH 121. We just learned the local tolling authority would have been a better deal than Cintra's by billions of dollars!
3/26/2007
Sen. Tommy Williams scolds TxDOT For "Picking Our Pockets".
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All of this is reasuring my decision to move out of Texas. The politicians have followed in Perry's lead to sell the State of Texas to the highest bidder and let the people of Texas pay for what is already ours. I am ashamed today to be Texan. I will never ever pay one cent to drive on roads my taxes were meant to build. Shameful, absolutely shameful greed in it's utmost glory.
From Anonymous to Anonymous: I think as long as we keep up the good fight we can MAYBE keep Rick Perry a lame-duck governor for his entire term (his lottery sale idea and mandatory vaccination ideas have been shot down thus far and just about EVERYONE seems opposed to the TTC, except for his cronies). It's clear that the majority of Texans did not want this clown reelected for another term, as his votes were something like 39%. But unfortunately there was not a single 'strong' candidate and too many choices. Chris Bell might have won if not for the other two, we'll never know.
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