Toll Authority Spends Fortune on Perks NOT Roads

The North Texas Tollway Authority [NTTA] is spending a small fortune on things that have nothing to do with building roads.

Instead, it spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of your toll money on advertising that comes with a valuable perk, and you don't get to enjoy it. It's an advertisement at the American Airlines Center which reads "TollTag people." This ad is costing you nearly half a million dollars.

We asked the executive director of the Tollway, Jorge Figueredo, why his agency spent the money. He told us "I don't know what the rationale was but I know we are not going to do it under my watch."

The NTTA signed the contract before Mr. Figueredo took charge in August 2007, but it's still in effect. As part of the half-million dollar contract, the NTTA was allowed to put an enormous kiosk in the center's rotunda, where employees sign people up for TollTags.

But the one big plus for the NTTA has nothing to do with advertising. It's the dozens of free tickets they get to Dallas Mavericks and Stars games. When we asked Mr. Figueredo about it, he said "I didn't know we got tickets and I don't know what is done with them."

But we do. A CBS 11 public information request reveals NTTA employees enjoyed some great Dallas Mavericks games. Some of the NTTA staff went to last year's quarterfinal playoff game against the Golden State Warriors, and others attended regular season games against the Spurs, the Pacers, and the Rockets.

But the NTTA claims it gave away lots of the tickets to unnamed "TollTag people." All they had to do was answer trivia questions at the game or sign up for a new toll tag.

Michael Sullivan of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility thinks this type of spending is outrageous, "one would expect that the toll road would use dollars to alleviate congestion on toll roads."...

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[pork4allah]

We Texans DO NOT WANT THE Trans Texas Corridor. You can take your NAU and SPP deals and shove it up your rear end or better yet up CFR David Rockefeller and Nathan Rothschild's rear end. As his Father and Grandfather, President Bush is a TRAITOR and in violation

of the Logan Act. We Texans want nothing to do with any of Bush's hidden agenda and secret societies. We will fight your NWO efforts because you bring chains to our FREEDOM.

Ron Paul is NOT a CFR member, the others are.

RON PAUL 2008

[TheProlefeed1]

NTTA blocked my from commenting on their videos, I posted about hearing their new radio advertising campaign with the guy with Denis Leary voice threatening listeners to "Pay your Zipcash bill OR ELSE end up in front of a judge where your sad excuses will be. yeah.ignored" The NTTA is now spending all that money they received through excessive administrative fees to advertise their threatening mob-style message on highly rated radio shows in morning and afternoon drive in the #5 media market!

[anikinippon]

NTTA is BULLSHIT!

[cooljj82]

This isn't what government does... This is what Government IS.

[sarah20xoxo]

thanks for posting