Highlighting a Texas Turf Anti-Toll protest, Bloomberg looks at the battles waging against toll roads.
- Kentucky: Toll Fees to replace an ailing bridge to Ohio were blocked by Tea Party legislators
- Congress: FedEx Corp. and McDonald’s Corp are working to keep barriers to toll roads on Interstate highways in tact
- Connecticut: Republicans blocked new toll legislation
Bloomberg also siezes on a Texas A&M Transportation Institute statistic to support toll roads : “$121 billion in wasted time and fuel in 2011, or $818 per commuter.”
Rep. Scott Sanford is also quoted as saying, ” “If a core function of government is transportation — building and maintaining roadways — that means whatever a citizen pays for that core government function is a tax. What we end up with is taxation without representation.”