How would the new Tollway lane work?

This is part of the GREAT GREEN CONSPIRACY to make Driving so fricking expensive that you have to take Public Transit. Making driving a privileges of the Rich. Trying to keep the little man down!!!


Rocket River
. . . . . . I guess I had best add this . . . ..

 

No. Service lanes were also added in exchange of additional service lanes on either side, and the removal of the two-way "Old Katy Road."

http://www.newsrouter.com/HiLight_Vol_1_Issue_3.pdf Page 4.
Also, please read www.katyfreeway.org/toll_road.html .

Rocket River, why not just BECOME rich instead of blaming everything on 'the man'?

 

working on it . .. .
wanna be the man

Rocket River
"I just like sticking it to the man . . ."
"but sir . .. you are the man . . . "
"yyeeaaa"
I forget which commercial that was

 

Sprint/Nextel. Also on the radio.

 

And an HOV lane. And better frontage roads. I-10 is going to be tons better once the construction has been completed (should be in October).

It's always been that way during peak hours.

 

They have tollway lanes now in Cali. It's a horrible idea.

 

While I was in California on business, they were talking about this on AM radio. People were so mad at the new tollways because it basically cost $10 a day for some commuters to use the tollway lanes. You would think that the money generated from the tolls would go to making better highways, make them bigger, or just maintain them. No,They use the money to buy buses. So basically, people that don't even use public transportation in California are the ones paying for the people that do. That's crazy.

 

I'm still not sure. Ask the City of Austin/Travis County/Williamson County road authorities. They can tell you.

 

Hey all this concrete ain't cheap, if we paid for it out of the state gasoline tax like we used to, no one could afford to drive anyway. So, in the new millenium you either get tollways or just terrible overcrowded old highways... like Florida.

If no one pays to drive in them then the tollway authority will start lowering the rate or occupancy requirements till they do. They've got bonds to pay off.

They did eventually take the toll plaza's off the old tollway between Dallas and Ft. Worth. But in Houston the busy parts of the tollways have to pay to build the other parts, like the part of Beltway 8 on the East side and eventually The Grand Parkway. It will never change to free in Houston.