Texas for Sale: New laws sell Texas to highest bidder
The public cannot pressure nor hold accountable a private corporation if the 'fee' or 'tax' is too high. Public private partnerships are the marriage of the corporation with the state and grants...
View ArticleCommuters HOT over HOT lanes
HOT lanes that utilize ‘congestion pricing’ are specifically designed to manipulate or ‘manage’ the level of congestion on the lanes by increasing the price if the government deems too much traffic is...
View ArticleExecutive Order to takeover ‘civil transportation’
...through this Executive Order, all resources become the property of the U.S. government -- individual property can be erased with the stroke of a cabinet member's pen. Americans can no longer afford...
View ArticleThe NAFTA superhighway yet to be built
The House and Senate are worlds apart except for one thing -- the reliance on tolling through ‘innovative financing‘ tools -- the TIFIA loan program and public private partnerships.
View ArticleNew technology unveiled at Texas forum, transforms driving
Dr. Mike Walton, Professor and Chair of Engineering at University of Texas at Austin, acknowledged the biggest hurdle to these technologies isn’t viability or technical hurdles, but rather public...
View ArticleToll tags & tracking: Big daddy government coming to a road near you
Whether it’s license plate readers, toll tags, or mobile phones, one thing is certain – you are being tracked. A recent uptick in reports of toll tags being used to track vehicle movements has created...
View ArticleLeap backwards: TxDOT downgrading paved roads to gravel prompts new funding
It’s dog eat dog as the fight over scarce road money gets uglier in Texas. At today’s Senate Select Committee on Transportation Funding, the Senate Transportation Committee Chair Robert Nichols took...
View ArticleMore bike paths? Congressman floats near doubling of federal gas tax
Tired of your road taxes disappearing? So is Neil Cavuto, with the Fox Business Network who hosts his own daily show where, yesterday, he unleashed his frustration on U.S. Representative Earl...
View ArticleHouse bans license plate readers: The road to toll collection threatens liberty
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment barring any federal funds from being used to buy equipment or store data collected from license plate readers. Congress had previously banned any...
View ArticleLawmakers on collision course with taxpayers on transportation
It’s been quite a week for transportation in Texas. Senate Transportation Committee Chair Robert Nichols held two interim hearings on highway funding. The first was a lovefest over public private...
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