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</aside> <div class="content"> <p>The Texas Legislature began this year’s session with a major case of toll fatigue. After more than a decade of letting<strong> </strong>local and state planners partially<strong> </strong>fund large highway projects through toll collections, most lawmakers had little appetite left<strong> </strong>for such projects. Some talked openly about scrapping many tolls already in place.</p> <p>Five months later, the state’s vast toll network remains intact, but the prospects for new toll projects have dimmed. In Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, major highway projects originally planned with toll lanes<strong> </strong>are in limbo as local officials try to work out the path ahead ...</p> <p><a id="content_more" href="/web/20150731073050/http://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/24/tolling-projects-limbo-following-session/" class="more" title="Read full story">Full Story</a></p> </div> </article> <div id="comment_policy"> <header class="smallcaps"> <h1>Comment Policy</h1> </header> <p> The Texas Tribune is pleased to provide the opportunity for you to share your observations about this story. We encourage lively debate on the issues of the day, but we ask that you refrain from using profanity or other offensive speech, engaging in personal attacks or name-calling, posting advertising, or wandering away from the topic at hand. To comment, you must be a registered user of the Tribune, and your user name will be displayed. 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Sold to the long-suffering public under the propaganda rubric of "congestion relief", such improvements have little or no mitigating effect on traffic congestion even in the short-term, but as intended primarily sustain and extend the longstanding 'build it and they will come' paradigm of economic development whereby political and industry insiders reap enormous enhanced-value benefits from the project-related stimulus trigger for repeated rounds of ownership syndication in moving from concept to construction to reality.</p> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653321938038777"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050im_/http://graph.facebook.com/653321938038777/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> June 24 @ 11:03 a.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=653321938038777">Neil Moyer</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153325299145837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">for whom the Lege tolls...</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153325299145837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10206612298091233"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050im_/http://graph.facebook.com/10206612298091233/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> June 24 @ 11:55 a.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10206612298091233">Jay Davis</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153325299145837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">How about that. One might get the impression the clowns in Austin actually work for the people. Clowns in Austin, clowns in Washington, same difference.</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153325299145837"><span>+</span> Reply</a></li> </ul> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> June 24 @ 3:12 p.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> Deidre Darnell </span> </p> <p class="comment">The problem with the pay-as-you-go tolling is that once the project is complete the tolling authority never stops tolling. The Sam Houston Tollway was voted in by the citizens of Harris County with the promise that as soon as construction was finished the tolling would be ceased. However, not only has the tolling NOT been ceased now that construction has been finished (over a year ago), but the tolls have been and continue to be INCREASED! Can you say CASH COW?</p> </div> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </li> <li> <div class="comment_author_image"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10200384904782441"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050im_/http://graph.facebook.com/10200384904782441/picture?type=square"/> </a> </div> <div class="comment_body"> <div class="comment_time"> June 24 @ 8:41 p.m. </div> <p class="byline"> <span class="author"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10200384904782441">Cody N Ailene</a> </span> via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153325299145837">Texas Tribune on Facebook</a> </p> <p class="comment">All roads should be toll roads.</p> <ul class="actions clearfix"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150731073050/https://www.facebook.com/texastribune/posts/10153325299145837"><span>+</span> 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