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GTurck

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4. We used it once...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 08:49 AM

Oct 2013

a few years ago to pick up friends at Austin Bergstrom but the tolls were awfully high. We have not used it since. We felt we were being gouged. It was only after that that we found out it was a private toll road which I guess Texas now controls. We refuse to spend our hard earned pension and Social Security on a private foreign enterprise that is only looking at profits. Our state and federal government built I-35 and other roads with our tax money that do the job and we pay nothing more for the privilege.

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As traffic lags, Texas 130 tollway debt rating lowered again (Austin-San Antonio corridor) [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2013 OP

They should turn it into a fracking equipment road. kentauros Oct 2013 #1

You didn't have to be Nostradamus to see that this was going to happen tularetom Oct 2013 #2

Perry's RW blowholes surround Austin ("Moscow-on-the-Colorado") with toll roads Eleanors38 Oct 2013 #3

We used it once... GTurck Oct 2013 #4

and the amusingly stupid part about all this is... Javaman Oct 2013 #5

I refuse to use it and any other toll roads in Austin. hobbit709 Oct 2013 #6