Texas DOT chief says private toll roads critical
Aug. 12, 2009 | 1:22 pm
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Texas’ top transportation official, the chairwoman of the Texas Transportation Commission, forcefully defended the department’s pursuit of private toll roads in an unusually direct speech in Irving today, reports the transportation blog of the Dallas Morning News.
Deirdre Delisi said without private capital Texas and Washington both will soon stop building the roads Texas and America needs. She cited success in Austin, where new toll roads have been built with tax dollars paying only a fraction of their costs, and in Houston and Dallas. North Texas, she said, is “the national laboratory for transportation solutions.”
Read the full item on the Dallas Morning News’ transportation blog.
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