Additional reply from Dick, who doesn't seem to fully read the response(s) given before adding new comments. Last courtesy post.
MJ?, Linda?, Sal? Which one of you called someone a Nazis? Inquiring minds would like to hear your response...
--Staff

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> Dick,
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> Your comment has been placed upon the page:
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> > No Need for Tolls, Texas A&M TTI Report
> > http://www.reasontofreedom.com/no_need_for_tolls_texas_am_tti_report.html
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> as that page seems to already answer your objections.
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> Staff
> from Reason to Freedom

Dear Respondents,

My daughter's an Aggie so I have some respect for the institution, but considerable skepticism when it comes to its public policy positions. Generally the faculty and student body are pretty right wing though my daughter and some of her peers graduated with their commitments to social justice and the public good intact.

Like many people engaged in debate, the folks in the no-toll crowd reached their conclusion and then started looking for "evidence" to support that conclusion. Luckily, the A&M study came along just in time to help them. However, what really drives their argument against tolls is that they want everyone, via gas taxes, to pay for the dramatically improved highways that will make the connections to entirely brand new tollways as cheap for anti-tollway folks as possible. We all get to pay for their convenience. Of course, that's also traditional highway financing in the U.S.

Today, new roads have to be built far faster than ever before, and those who have financed and built toll roads to date in TX have already PROVED they can do that. They've done it in Dallas, Austin, Houston, you name it. Toll roads, the new way, solve traffic problems while the old way leaves us coping with ever more deficient transportion options.

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my initial email and to read this one.

Dick