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!

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