Toll-Road Piece 'Riddled With Nonsense'

"...Dear Editor: Mike Clark-Madison's toll-road piece was so riddled with nonsense it's hard to..."

May 26, 2004 Postmarks

Rail vs. Roads

Check the numbers

"...to a higher standard of investment scrutiny than are roads, which are also wildly expensive. By comparison to the..."

Sept. 12, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Costello Puts Up a (Toll) Roadblock

Austin Toll Party sues CTRMA

"...Toll road opponent Sal Costello has found one more way..."

March 4, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Toll Tax Is Flat Tax

"...on the reaction of the public to the proposed toll tax ["Page Two," Jan. 21]. It happened about halfway..."

Jan. 25, 2005 Postmarks

Defending a 290 Toll

Engineer over US 290 West project through Oak Hill sticks up for future toll project

"...290 West project through Oak Hill defended the future toll project at a TxDOT open house last week as..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Many Toll Questions for Harper

"...the Sept. 10 issue of the Chronicle [Postmarks], Texas Toll Party representative Jean Harper listed three column inches of..."

Sept. 13, 2004 Postmarks

Issue With Toll Road

"...the flyover from 290 to southbound I-35 is now tolled. When you elect not to take the toll road..."

March 18, 2013 Postmarks

Roads to Nowhere

It's make-or-break week for toll roads, and the road through the Senate is bumpy.

"...by letting municipal-planning organizations hand huge contracts over to toll-road operators. But the signs are really not good. First..."

April 22, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Then There's This: The Road to Fewer Roads

Can the latest advances in intersection designs fix Austin's gridlock?

"...1626 in Hays County. Pro­pon­ents hope to jump-start the toll road before a new anti-SH 45 regime is seated..."

May 2, 2014 News Column by Amy Smith

Will Toll Plazas Be Poorly Managed, Too?

"...know how to use them properly. They build wide roads such as Manchaca (seven lanes wide) between Cannon and..."

July 22, 2004 Postmarks

Page Two: Shock Therapy

Shock Therapy: Texans need to hear the truth about taxes and toll roads

"...The current toll-road wars are profoundly depressing in so many ways. Not..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Column by Louis Black

The Traffic Report

Rail rolls forward, but toll roads encounter slowing

"...Capital Metro's latest rail plan, local leaders on the toll road front – having gotten an earful from many..."

Sept. 10, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Don't Pack That Gavel Yet

Can the toll road conundrum be solved before the end of the session - or at all?

"...vetoed House Bill 1892, the House effort to use toll roads to bolster the crumbling transport infrastructure. He's waiting..."

May 21, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Costello accuses Curtis of attempted bribery

"...In the latest fracas of the Toll Road Wars, toll opponents are accusing mayoral aide Matt..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

A Very Special Sine Die

Governor gets all of what he needed, none of what he wanted from special session

"...extend the moratorium exemptions for a handful of private-equity toll roads...."

July 3, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin @ Large: Wreck on the Highway

Why the dogs can't catch the toll road speed machine

"...Rep. Terry Keel got into a shouting match with pro-toll witness Michael Von Ohlen, and then with CAMPO Chair..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Pete's Principle

Ex-Chamber Head Winstead Takes Us to the Toll Road

"...seen Austin's path to the future, and it's a toll road. The former chair of the Greater Austin Chamber..."

May 22, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Hold Those Tolls!

Road conditions: funding hazy, future unclear

"...to I-35. As conceived, it would include free and tolled highway lanes, as well as rail and utility lines,..."

July 27, 2007 News Feature by Larry Schooler

Naked City

Restless, bored policymakers pay little attention to Sal Costello

"...Toll road opponent Sal Costello finally might have something to..."

Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

Recall petitioners look for a battle they can Wynn.

"...The Austin Toll Party tried to turn an organizational failure into a..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Strayhorn kisses up to anti-tollsters, but other pols hold at arm's length

"...crowd couldn't get much friendlier than the Tunes Not Tolls concert with headliner Jimmie Vaughan last Thursday night...."

April 29, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

The CAMPO board sticks up for fiscal equity on the highway front

"...road projects out of its $2.2 billion Central Texas toll road plan, but Circle C Ranch residents shouldn't cheer..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

Toll road segments poised to drop like flies

"...Policy Board has come up with a solution to toll road opposition: Just tell the Central Texas Regional Mobility..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Getting off the Road

Rail will help, roads will help – but so will your decision not to drive today

"...apply to traffic congestion. Viewed as a budget, Austin's roads are stretched to their limit. Building more roads –..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Point Austin: High Tuition

As the centex toll plan moves forward, Austin becomes a reluctant stepchild

"...by outside transportation experts of CAMPO's current Central Texas toll road plan, to determine if it is necessary and..."

March 11, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Public Notice: One Ring to Rule Them All

There's much to dislike about the greater MoPac tollway plan

"...a massive expansion of MoPac South, including two new toll lanes each way from Cesar Chavez down to Slaughter..."

Nov. 6, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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Our readers talk back.

"...Chronicle get? So, the Chronicle is now advocating ongoing tolls throughout Central Texas? Guess you guys are closer to..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...am insincere or politically opportunistic in my position against toll roads. I believe that tolling roads we have already..."

March 3, 2006 Column

Page Two

The unprecedented outcry over toll roads ignores a larger problem: We want more government services than we can pay for

"...another legislative session, let's take a moment to ponder toll roads. And I really mean ponder: This isn't an..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Here Come the Transporters

In the endless Central Texas transportation wars, the lions and the lambs look for ways to make peace

"...same plan. Though the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority's toll-road system and Capital Metro's commuter-rail-and-bus proposal originate from different..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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