Mike Stone will give an update on the Fort Bend County Toll Road Authority at the next Fort Bend Chamber Infrastructure Planning Division meeting. Breakfast will be provided at the meeting, which will take place at 7:30 a.m. Jan. 28 at the chamber, 445 Commerce Green Blvd., Sugar Land.
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Cost for the event is $10 for chamber members and $20 for non-members. Reservations are required. For more information, contact Ellen Bush at 281-491-0277 or at ellen@fortbendcc.org.
The mony being raised by gas taxes is funding costs to construct, an pay cost for new/present toll roads today.
That leads us to double charge fees to ride on a toll road, effecting freeways of the public to travel.
one can always avoid toll roads if you don’t want to pay tolls. What I don’t see anyone asking here is where’s the monies raised by gas taxes?
If you are the incumbent, toll roads are a great way to get the road built without new taxes. You don’t have to cut services either. But, what they don’t realize is you prohibit growth and prosperity when you toll your citizens. The right of ways are owned by the public, the use of them should be free. Of course if you are boss hogg and you want to lock up the right of way as your personal atm machine, well then, you need to keep building toll roads. I don’t trust government to tax me twice much less once for the same thing.
The same Incumbents are supporting more toll roads, or more future tollways thats effecting justice also. Paying a court fee for a case trial is a toll fee being charge for justice, when no respentation is effective or present.
We went to Austin the last time they tried this with thousands of others. I noticed they keep claiming they dropped the I-35 tolling TTC corridor but they didn’t kill the I-69 tolling corridor, which goes right through our community.
viewpoint, I think the chamber solicits folks to speak and the only way they can get executives and real estate developers to the meetings and to pay for lunch or breakfast is talk about future construction plans. There is always a cost to have food and a place to meet. I am sure it will be reported on and any info will be made available shortly afterwards.
Maybe they will let you deduct the cost of the meeting off your toll tag, hehehe.
The public doesn’t want them but that is not what is happening. Take a look at TXDOT’s scheduled projects, most of them are toll roads. TXDOT doesn’t care where the money comes from as long as they can keep issuing contracts and build roads. Even though all of the town halls they hold have overwhelming opposition to toll roads from the electorate, they ignore it and continue with toll roads.
Who is arguing for tolling of public roads? I hope they don’t either and oppose any privatization of our public roadways for Bobby Hebert and his TTC clan.
Everyone should look up texasturf.org It is a great organization dedicated to stopping toll roads. We need roads but they shouldn’t be tolled. It is double taxation. Richard Morrison was elected to his county commissioners position largely on toll roads affecting 59 @ Greatwood. Personally I want a big freeway interchange at that intersection ( Morisons supporters don’t ) but I don’t want it tolled. I live off 59 for the single reason I can travel using my $54.00 registration tax and the per/gallon gasoline tax. That’s it. Why do you need to pay a toll? If we need road money, raise the gasoline tax and or registration but tolls are inefficient.
Arguments please….I am locked and loaded.
Limitting Freedom of speech by Mr. stone, with a chambers breakfast fees, to hear/ voice? FB tollways/Private Voices(Mike Store) is cutting public voices inside FB chambers, an withholding future freeways from public funds by supporting more toll roads.
We public taxpayers are opposing all future toll roads, but we are supporting more future freeways to travel.