[DeTomaso] FW: Car hits 220 MPH on new Texas Hwy

[Jeff Detrich]

>
> Cintra is building one in Dallas, too. They are rebuilding the main
> thoroughfare in Dallas, the LBJ Freeway. Cintra was supposed to build
> another, the 121 north loop around the city, but there was so much local
> opposition in Collin and Denton Counties that they took it away from them
> and gave it to the North Texas Tollway Authority.
>


> Infrastructure is one of the legitimate responsibilities of
> government. Let's not forget that a toll road is a user tax regardless of
> who owns or runs it. One of the main advantages of a toll road is that it
> allows politicians to say that they have not raised taxes.
>
>
Jeff
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