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Explosive growth in North Texas has meant more strain on limited transportation funding.
Collin County transportation funding solutions are:
Collin County Officials Point to the Followign Transportation Funding Problems:
SB 184 and SJR 15 seek to:
New Jersey needs more funding for transportation. Its a common refrain. New Jersey has the nation’s 2nd lowest gas tax at 10.5 cents.
New Jersey has a Transportation Trust Fund, but the funds go to pay transportation bond debt. Sounding familiar?
To fill transportation funding gaps, NJ raised its toll prices. It’s not enough.
The head of the Assembly’s Transportation Committee wants to increase the wholesale gas price. The cost to people in NJ will be about 80cent…
North Texas Regional Transportation Council cancels its plans to move forward with a rural tollroad and The Trinity Parkway tollroad proposal.
A couple months ago the Trinity project drew very vocal opposition because a private entity had authority to exercise the power eminent domain. [Dallas Morning News]
TribTalk offers perspectives. Today’s perspective is from State Representative Jeff Leach. The highlights of his persceptive on transportation funding:
A proposed new toll road in North Texas by the Texas Turnpike Corporation has garnered the attention of activists. Lots of activists.
A public forum was shut down by the Fire Marshall. The next public forum included heated and vocal opposition. Last week there was an organized protest by Texas TURF. And now Breitbart, the same organization for which Michael Quinn Sullivan writes, posted in opposition to the toll road.
Besides the disdain for toll roads, the proposed North …
Super Tuesday sounds like a primary day. For North Texas Super Tuesday is today, October 14th. Texas TURF will ake a public stand on its opposition to the Texas Turnpike Corp.’s Northeast Gateway. Six city council’s along the toll road’s path have passed resolutions opposing the toll road. [KETR]
The controversial Northeast Gateway, a new toll road project in North Texas, spearheaded by the Texas Turnpike Corporation, is facing a reversal of fortune. The North Central Texas Council of Governments may reverse its support for the project.
The project that has been greeted by over flowing crowds overwhelmingly opposed to the new toll road. Toll roads, especially toll roads by private companies, are not en vogue in 2014 Texas.
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Local governments are paying attention to the robust public input on a North Texas private toll road project by the Texas Turnpike Corporation. To translate lawyer speak- robust public input means angry voters. This week the town of Wylie called a special council meeting & voted to OPPOSE a private toll road, which gives the private corporation eminent domain authority. Texans don’t like private toll roads. Texans dislike private companies using eminent domain & building private t… Private companies exercising eminent domain is eerily familiar to the TransTexas Corridor. TransTexas Corridor brought an emergence of grassroots groups opposed to a private, foreign company being granted the power of eminent domain. The Legislature ended the TransTexas Corridor years ago. But, private tollroad companies still exist, including The Texas Turnpike Corporation. It has proposed a new Northeast Gateway Toll Project. Vocal opposition to this project caused the first public meeti…North Texans Not Happy Campers with Private Toll Road
Private Companies Exercising Eminent Domain as Popular as Richard Simmons' Jazzercise in Collin County