Tolling 290: Neighbors Disagree on Highway
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People who use U.S. 290 east of U.S. 183 and west of the SH-130 toll road got to see an elaborate set of plans to upgrade the highway and add a toll road to it.
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This takes care of the worst of the bottlenecks. The toll facility ends up paying for the non-toll facility. All folks win in this deal," says Mike Heiligenstein, Executive Director of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, which already oversees the 183-A toll road in Cedar Park.
He says the status of the highway makes little difference in the long run to east-side commuters. "Whether or not it's a toll road or it's not a toll road is inconsequential. Over the next twenty years, you're going to see development more than double."
But Dewy Brooks, the president of a homeowners' association in a subdivision right along U.S. 290, doesn't see it that way. "To take an existing road that's already there and turn it into a toll road and say it's an improvement, I have some issues with that," he says.
Heiligenstein says his agency has worked around Senator Kay Bailey-Hutchison's amendment banning current free roads from being turned into toll roads by keeping the frontage roads free of charge. In the past, the Texas Department of Transportation, a separate entity from the CTRMA, handling the 290 project, has taken a lot of heat from the public about plans to turn parts of Central Texas' highway system into toll roads.
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4 comments:
turning a hwy into feeder roads is an improvement? since when?
Parasite mike is killing our economy. Hope he has a heart attack to do the country a favor.
incest is best. put your family to the test.
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Why is it that only toller assholes are ever appointed to decision making posts for our city? Makes me extremely angry.
Is this grainy .wmv showing a toll gantry added AS SOON AS YOU COMPLETE THE FLYOVER from I35 onto 290? That's existing elevated highway that we use right now! Total bullshit. There are a few exits beyond that where we don't pay a toll. This is clearly tolling existing highway, not just tolling existing right of way. Someone needs to arrest Parasite Mike.
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