Adela Moreno writes about the issue of toll roads in Texas in her article “Driving is not always Priceless” which is found on her blog, Forgotten Alamo. In her article, Adela talks about her concern with lawmaker’s possible decision to make I-35 a toll road.
I agree with Adela that we don’t need toll roads in Texas and that our tax money should pay for roads that should be free for anyone to access.
Freeing up the toll roads would greatly help the congestion on non toll highways in Austin and many other high traffic cities. Currently, the toll roads are underused as a result of citizens not wanting to pay extra. To me, this just looks like wasted roads. Austin has a huge traffic problem, but city officials have turned the other cheek. Making toll roads free would help the problem tremendously in my opinion.
I thought Adela had some good points about how taxes should pay for our roads, but she didn’t really back anything up with data or other articles. Overall, her article was good and got me thinking about how the toll roads in the Austin area affect the horrible traffic we have here.
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