Liars, Crooks, Thieves and other Vermin.Today’s Austin American Snakesman article by Ben Wear confirms my forecast. I've also received many emails from folks having the same additional drive times near other toll ways all over town. The Snakesman states this about the traffic slow downs:
Lil' Watson continues to ignore the real solutions as he pushes to shift our public highways to tollways with the upcoming Oct 8th vote on CAMPO.
I said it years ago, and it’s coming true. I said, toll roads create traffic congestion.
Imagine, as the years pass, how much worse the free frontage roads will get as TxDOT will have a financial incentive to NEVER fix the free road traffic congestion. Hey Watson, it's a great toll scheme your pushing!
Here’s the kicker. Remember when the district engineer of TxDOT, Bob Daigh (you know, the TxDOT goofball with ties to convicted criminal Pete Peters) along with CTRMA's Mike Heiligenstein, promised over and over in CAMPO meetings, and at community hearings that “No new stop lights will be added” near any new toll roads?
Well, Bob Daigh lied.
Again.
From that same story in the Snakesman:
“The new luminous obstruction, according to some of the e-mails and calls I've been getting, initially added at least 15 minutes to some people's morning commute. One Bastrop resident says her commute ballooned from 30 minutes to 80 minutes or more. One person wrote, perhaps engaging in hyperbole, that the backup extended as far as 10 miles."Sen. Kirk Watson, otherwise known as "Mr. Toll Road" has been pushing the unaccountable tax on Austin since he was mayor in the 90's. Watson diverted tens of millions of public dollars (intended for free roads) into the very first Austin toll roads - way before they were complete.
Lil' Watson continues to ignore the real solutions as he pushes to shift our public highways to tollways with the upcoming Oct 8th vote on CAMPO.
I said it years ago, and it’s coming true. I said, toll roads create traffic congestion.
Imagine, as the years pass, how much worse the free frontage roads will get as TxDOT will have a financial incentive to NEVER fix the free road traffic congestion. Hey Watson, it's a great toll scheme your pushing!
Here’s the kicker. Remember when the district engineer of TxDOT, Bob Daigh (you know, the TxDOT goofball with ties to convicted criminal Pete Peters) along with CTRMA's Mike Heiligenstein, promised over and over in CAMPO meetings, and at community hearings that “No new stop lights will be added” near any new toll roads?
Well, Bob Daigh lied.
Again.
From that same story in the Snakesman:
“Signals installed after tollway opened causing new backups east of the airport."
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