This message is from the SOS Alliance . Tomorrow the Austin City Council will hold a public hearing and possibly vote to approve Austin s long-range transportation plan. The proposed plan still includes the Bradley toll road, which would link the southern end of Mopac over to Interstate 35. If completed, this link would make Mopac an immediate bypass for Interstate 35 traffic and would create enormous development pressure on the Barton Springs recharge zone. TxDOT projections include an immediate increase of 50,000 car and truck trips per day onto Mopac.
Moms spend more time driving than they spend dressing, bathing, and feeding a child.
Residents of the 23 American metro areas that added the most new road capacity per person in the 1990s saw the annual number of hours spent stuck in traffic increase by 70.4 percent. Meanwhile residents of the 23 metro areas that added the least new road capacity per person experienced a mere 61.9 percent increase in congestion. See the original article or the discussion at kuro5hin. It concerns me a lot. What he's really saying is there is no tax cut, they're just giving the money to his friends in the energy industry.