Dallas Ft. Worth and Texas Road Building Innovations

Texans for Safe Reliable Transportation presents Road-Building Innovations: The Dallas/Fort Worth and Texas Experience. New projects in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and the State Highway 130 project South of Austin to Seguin highlight innovative transportation solutions utilizing the private sector.

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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Public private partnership
• managed lanes
• highway financing

[onionofdeath]

Too bad this plan only works for cars, and maybe buses. We need to have denser communities along these transportation corridors, so that instead of a tolled highway, we can have rail, which uses less land, and is probably cheaper than having two highways stacked on top of each other. That probably makes too much sense though.

[mallurocket]

Build more MASS TRANSIST SYSTEM like in Europe and other developed countries. These type of wastefull spending will not get us anywhere in the long run. We do need better highways, but now is the time to think about creating mass transist system. America lack that, because we want to feed our oil giants like EXXON. Gues how much profit they mad in 2011? A mere 56 Billion.....

[noodles91380]

Build more freeways to alleviate traffic.

20th century solutions for 21st century problems. :/

[Intransitman]

Tolls are needed on the existing lanes! Also more light rail & commuter train lines are needed too!

[im1greatman]

Tolls are going to foreign companies. Beware!

[rantanamo]

@mallurocket Europe and East Asia are still building freeways.

[ThinkStage]

Very cool

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[preempted]

Texas ripped of Americans and sold shares to every one but citizens of the United states...... go figure...... I still support handing this land fill of money greedy fucks back to the Mexico, let them try and make a profit in that government. NAFTA and all other I won't do good for this county.. just convince most immigrants to go back home and make their shit holes work better than sucking another country off. Texas is the biggest self out of the Union, should be punished. PS no Orbiter for you

[DFWdeno]

@onionofdeath they are doing rail as well, the Fort Worth T and the DART rail are going to be running along side these highways and they will both connect at DFW airport so you can soon take the train rather then drive all the time

[TheTripleDeuce]

So, in order to compensate for the fact that we are too shortsighted to collect taxes equal to necessary expenditures like new freeways, we need to pay extra for these roads in order to fund a private tollroad company's profit?

In case anyone in Texas still knows how to do basic math:

Freeway Cost + Tollroad Company Profit = MORE EXPENSIVE

[29Texan]

@mallurocket

Funny thing. Texas proposed to have basically its own super highway system by not only adding to the freeways, but creating highspeed rail to run along the highways, connecting the Texas Triangle (DFW, Houston, San Antonio/Austin).

But because of controversy and a lot of pissed off land owners, it's not happening. Well, not in it's ORIGINAL plan, anyway....