We figured that subject line that we love toll roads might get ya! 
This is what happens if local and state officials spend hundreds of millions of our tax dollars connecting South Mopac to I-35 and expanding Mopac from Cesar Chavez to the Wildflower Center.
In a rush deal — tomorrow — you could witness the Travis County Commissioners Court commit MoPacs MURDER. Here’s the anatomy:
Road warrior SW Travis County Commissioner Gerald Daughetry is fast tracking MoPac’s Murder by moving for $15 million tomorrow to cement the project before Sarah Eckhardt and Brigid Shea get a chance to vote.
The money isn’t due for almost 2 years! Come find out which budget items will be shorted by $15M?!?!
Stop Daugherty from tomorrow’s big “screw you MoPac commuters” overreach.
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Thank y’all — hold on to your hats, it’s going to get even more wild taking back our city and our region!
PS There’s lots of great information at this website about this topic — thank you Keep MoPac Local for all the hard work: http://www.keepmopaclocal.org
The future of Austin – 40% roadway congestion after spending $27 billion.
Monday night, in a stunning acceptance of a wholesale drop in Austin’s quality of life and economic vitality, the CAMPO transportation board, comprised of local elected officials, voted 17-2 to prolong a pretend transportation solution which strangles the region’s mobility.
CAMPO accomplished its perverted NO GROWTH plan in the same grotesque way a tumor kills its host – by choking off the organs and causing them to fail. Planning to fail. Planning for a future that is worse than today and striving to get there. Driving the region into a brick wall of congestion.
This multi-modal wet dream of homebuilders, road builders, land speculators and meddlers has no reliable funding. The citizens in the region have no clue what their elected leaders settled for and what’s in store for them.
For comic relief, we give you this ridiculously funny plan by TxDOT to sue 150,000 individuals for non-payment of tolls. Thanks to attorney Bill Gammon who has been fighting the idiot tollers for years now, you will enjoy this: 3 minute KXAN report.
And, here’s what ChangeAustin’s Brian Rodgers told the board:
“People are no longer angry, they’re scared because their property taxes are climbing beyond their capacity to pay them, cutting into the bone of their daily finances. We cannot ask them to carry the burden of building more roads without shared sacrifice…” Read the rest below.
ANNOUNCEMENT!
Those transportation planners at CAMPO have stepped in it again!
Now they want to bring 40,000 more cars on to MoPAC with another toll road (SH45 in southwest Austin) over the Edwards Aquifer! Why? Because big boy developers and land speculators want their roads paid for by…guess who…you and me. We can pay the tolls and still sit in traffic!
You can stop this madness. Just do this please before 6 pm next Monday when CAMPO will vote on the 2035 plan.
Email or call (or do both!):
Dear Mayors Leffingwell, Garver and Coleman, Judge Biscoe, and Commissioner Beckett:
I am counting on you to put some common sense into transportation planning in our region. That means voting yes to eliminate SH45 (the southwest toll road) from the CAMPO 2035 plan.
Then say whatever else you want to but keep it clean!
If you want to know what community activist wonks have to say about these complex issues, go here:
Roger Baker in Ken Martin’s new local publication The Austin Bulldog.
Brian Rodgers’ presentation to the Real Estate Council of Austin.