Tollroads Are as Popular as Kilts in Texas

Stands to reason that kilts may be more popular than  toll roads based on a recent TXDOT meeting inDallas.  TXDOT proposes toll lanes for portions of Interstate 35E and U.S. Highway 67 in Southern Dallas. People were not pleased.

80 people showed up to voice opposition. including, the Dallas Zoo, which was not thrilled about making it harder for people to get to the zoo, but because TXDOT borrowed the Zoo’s giraffe logo for the project. Reasons for the opposition:

• harm economic development of the outlying areas
• unfair to not allow all citizens equal access to the roadways
• the problems for delays in the roadways in downtown Dallas, not the roads in Southern Dallas
• the elusive specter of eminent domain to obtain land

3 projects that recently proposed tolls were recently called off in the Dallas area. Citizens objected to the tolls. Local governments in the area objected to the toll lanes.  

Dallas Morning News