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VinnyVincent

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  1. I understand that 290 was more work to clear and get ready. What I am saying is that even AFTER it was all cleared and "ready"...the process to simply level out the road has taken them longer than the 288 crew to level and pave the road. A lot longer. You drive by the 288 construction zone and it's actively being worked on with a decent staff of workers. In contrast 290 seems to have empty equipment sitting there for weeks at a time and overall the whole operation just seems totally unprofessional and amatuerish compared to the 288 job.
  2. I guess that's not an issue 1.4 million a day is the kind of money these guys paying the bills will be making... http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Toll-road-authority-doubles-as-bank-for-county-4083949.php
  3. No I don't really see where you are going. See unlike some of the "experts" commenting on these threads; I actually live/commute not just in Houston, but on 290 and 288 daily. Even AFTER they had 290 ripped up and started paving... it's taken them longer to simply flatten out the surface than it has for the 288 crew to pave the entire road.
  4. Oh and taking a train is just stupid. By the time you find a way to the station and wait for the train to show up, you could've sat in traffic and not paid to use the road(although that is rapidly becoming less of an option with the proliferation of tolls)
  5. Yes it's going up super fast near 610. I didn't know they could build roads like that. Wonder why they couldn't get the same crew on 290...
  6. I also hope you guys realize that you will be sending your money to the developer, a private company this time around. They are getting more brave with this crap and they are going to take it as far as we let them...
  7. I don't care who we replace them with either. Mickey Mouse could do a better job engineering and planning some of these roads.
  8. Get real. Have you overheard any of the discussions our officials have regarding road construction? The idea of making a non-tolled road is not even remotely on the table. IMO they all need to be replaced with their kind of thinking.
  9. What makes you automatically assume it was spent on non-toll projects? I'd say there's zero room to assume that it's NOT being spent on toll roads considering the lack of oversight and public interest.
  10. I'd like to know exactly what that money was spent on because I don't doubt that it was used to build more toll roads. It also seems that no one here is even sure as to whether or not HCTRA clears a profit. These are all some serious questions that need cleared up before we just go slapping down superhighways all over the place and paying insane tolls.
  11. If HCTRA is not making a massive profit, then there is something seriously wrong with the way that organization is handling their money.
  12. And if they absolutely had to just build a super highway right down the center, why not one more lane in each direction and a "managed lane"(toll road) in the center? That seems more moderate to me. At least have something to encourage car pooling, but no, no...it's just a straight up three lane reversible toll road. It's just really beyond me how people pay 1.75 every few miles on BW 8, but they are somehow too broke to simply add a single lane in each direction on 288. Instead they had to opt for a three lane super highway.
  13. Considering the profit they make on BW 8 alone, I just don't see how it's not possible to slap some concrete down on the land that was already cleared and paid for years ago and call it a day. We wouldn't have to build any toll booths or maintain any equipment. No billing department. No customer service. No nothing except for a road that everyone can drive on. How is tolling the new lanes really helping traffic overall? Wouldn't it be far more efficient to not build/maintain a toll road? Lets say they build three tolled lanes, but it costs 5-10 dollars to go any good distance down 288 now, so there's 3X less traffic. Could we not have just added one lane in each direction and gotten the same traffic relief? Something tells me the cost of doing that is doable with tax dollars, where of course building a super highway down the center is not feasible or currently necessary. I do realize that 288 was initially designed to have express lanes with less exits/on ramps going down the center. Express lanes does not mean TOLL road. Were tolls even a concept when 288 was initially designed?
  14. I just read some info that would suggest that our elected officials have pushed for existing roads to be converted into access roads for the toll lanes that have been added. I understand this would be way off in the future for 288, but to me seems like that would be their eventual goal.
  15. No they're not idiots, we are for continuing to elect them. Instead of figuring things out the easy thing to do is just keep building toll roads since people like you and me are stupid enough to believe their story about how there's no other way to fund the road.
  16. Well money does change hands seeing how we've paid for BW8 more than seven times over, but the only new roads appearing are somehow more toll roads. So if we pay tolls on a road that been paid for, in order to have money to build new roads, why are all new roads tolled?
  17. Yes. The entire stretch of hwy 290 between BW8 and 610. I drive both 288 and 290 Daily and 290 is far worse. No comparison.
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