{"id":608,"date":"2004-07-18T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2004-07-18T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-18T15:28:30","slug":"toll-roads-create-traffic-jams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Toll roads create traffic jams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keathmilligan.net\/view.php?id=138\">backlash<\/a> against the unpopular plan to put toll roads on Austin highways.   There&#8217;s a petition to recall Mayor Wynn for his pro-toll position.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite public input 10-to-1 against, CAMPO Transportation Policy Board members passed a modified version of the toll plan Monday 16-7. Loop 360 will require another vote, but parts of Mopac, US 290, US 183 and the new SH 45 will be converted to toll roads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What on earth are the politicians thinking! I lived in New England for a long time, where there was a long tradition of toll roads.  They were wildly unpopular, because toll roads create traffic jams.<br \/>\nIn 1996, Massachusetts governor Bill Weld made a big popular splash when he presided in person of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/election\/october96\/kerry_weld_10-25.html\">destruction of tollbooths<\/a> on the Massachusetts turnpike.<br \/>\nEven the new electronic systems make cars slow down to pass through the lanes.  This is not what you want during rush hour and during holiday vacation exodus periods.<br \/>\nI hope we can stop this before Austin learns the hard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there&#8217;s a backlash against the unpopular plan to put toll roads on Austin highways. There&#8217;s a petition to recall Mayor Wynn for his pro-toll position. Despite public input 10-to-1 against, CAMPO Transportation Policy Board members passed a modified version of the toll plan Monday 16-7. Loop 360 will require another vote, but parts of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toll roads create traffic jams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-9O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}