https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2008-09-12/671777/
The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority project was green-lighted on the basis of current, growing congestion – traffic on U.S. 290 East between U.S. 183 and SH 130 has increased more than 78% since 1990. Daily traffic is estimated at 40,000 vehicles when the toll road opens in 2013, increasing to around 60,000 vehicles by 2030. (U.S. 290 also will be widened as part of the project; those lanes will remain untolled.) Without passenger rail in the corridor – projected to serve the same volume of travelers as two highway lanes in each direction – a toll road and/or expensive widening of 290 eventually would be needed all the way to Elgin.
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