WOAI news: Secret TxDOT Plan to Toll Existing Interstates

With the latest TxDOT con, your state tax money would 'buy back' interstate highways, like I-35 - that your federal tax money already paid for, so the state could charge you tolls to drive on that interstate highway. This is TxDOT's continued plan to become an unaccountable taxing authority.

Why toll only tax funded freeways when you can toll tax funded interstates as well? Please write a letter to your editor. - The Muckraker

By Jim Forsyth
KQXT FM (San Antonio)

At the same time local officials assure us that tolls will 'never' be charged for traveling on existing highway lanes, 1200 WOAI news has obtained a Texas Transportation Commission report in which TxDOT officials discuss ways to impose tolls on existing interstate highways.

The report, entitled 'Forward Momentum, a Report to the 110th Congress,' makes several recommendations to Congress on how best to upgrade the state's highway system.

One section, entitled "Tolling Authority EXPANSION" (the capital letters are included in the report), discusses strategies Congress could use to allow Texas to charge tolls on existing Interstate highways, including Interstates 10, 35, and 27.

Read the whole article HERE!