Sen. Tommy Williams scolds TxDOT For "Picking Our Pockets"!

Sen. Williams scolds TxDOT last Wednesday for "Picking Our Pockets" with unnecessarily high toll rates.

3/21/07, Sen. Tommy Williams, of the Senate Transportation Committee scolded TxDOT after commissioner Ted Houghton said "We need to extract as much capital out of the ground as possible". The comment offended Sen. Williams because it illustrated what is wrong with the arrogant agency: TxDOT feels it is more important to boost private company (Cintra) toll profits than serve the public.

The SH 121/Cintra deal was just made, and it's become public knowledge that TxDOT told the local tolling authority that it could NOT submit a bid for SH 121. We just learned the local tolling authority would have been a better deal than Cintra's by billions of dollars!

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• txdot
• privatization
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• roads
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• texas
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• cintra
• sh
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[newlywedmoodys]

thanks for again for posting Focus1964, awesome job!

[ctmcdonough]

TxDOT is just like the Texas Sports Authority, just out to make money for themselves while wasting precious tax dollars and making unrealistic promises.