You may have heard that Hays County is asking Travis County to spend close to $20 million on a new road to connect South Mopac to FM 1626.  Long term plans are to connect MoPac to IH-35.  This will make MoPac gridlock even worse!

http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2011-11-04/point-austin-buckle-up/

What’s in it for Travis County? The proposed road dramatically increases daily traffic on Mopac, delivers pollution to Travis County neighborhoods, and takes scarce county funds away from higher-priority transportation and community needs.

So who benefits from the new road? Hays County developers and long-distance haulers–at the expense of each and every Travis County taxpayer and Mopac driver.

We need to say NO to Hays County’s giveaway road proposal and spend our limited transportation dollars on projects that improve traffic, not make it worse.  Take a minute to go here and send a message to the Travis County Commissioners Court and Austin City Council to Keep Mopac Local:

http://www.keepmopaclocal.org/take-action

PS  Our friend, Bill Oakey, just submitted this information on the rate hikes that Austin Energy has in store for Austin ratepayers.

Better get organized, y’all — and we need smaller geographically representative districts — to rein in the perpetual hogs at the public trought, aka the growth lobby!