bassthumpa
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Austin, TX
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Re: Austin Toll Roads to fund Williamson County Freeways.
said by alg  :said by Corona :Oh, and BTW TxKent , when you're stopped in traffic, you're getting ZERO MPG. Actually that is incorrect. Somebody needs to go back to basic math.
0 / ANYTHING = 0
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Corona
It's cool, I'm takin it back
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Aubrey, TX
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said by alg :said by Corona :Oh, and BTW TxKent , when you're stopped in traffic, you're getting ZERO MPG. Actually that is incorrect. is it?
Average MPG = distance travelled (miles) / fuel consumed (gallons).
If you sit in traffic for 30 minutes, traveling zero miles, while consuming fuel, you're getting zero miles per gallon. (unless you've invented a way to divide by zero)
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Corona
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alg
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said by Corona :Oh, and BTW TxKent , when you're stopped in traffic, you're getting ZERO MPG. Actually that is incorrect.
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TxKent
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Pflugerville, TX | reply to j9_ls1
No problem. I'm in class right now learning 1337 skillz. I can bypass the scanners.
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j9_ls1
join:2002-07-22
Austin, TX | reply to TxKent
well, when you use the alternate routes, dont forget your foil cap. Sal thinks the alternate routes are a conspiracy to force you to pass the alien brain wave devices, which will allow them to learn everything in your head...:ohno: |
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TxKent
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Pflugerville, TX | reply to imacsal
I don't generally sit in traffic. I use alternate routes - and avoid highways for the most part.
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Corona
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join:2000-03-14
Aubrey, TX
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I love toll roads. Austin traffic is absolutely horrible.
Whenever I'm in Dallas, I use them. Why? BECAUSE 90% OF THE PEOPLE SITTING ON THE FREE ROADS ARE TOO CHEAP TO USE THEM.
So - when toll roads come in, all you cheapies just sit there in the free lanes while I zoom by you all in the toll roads.
Oh, and BTW TxKent , when you're stopped in traffic, you're getting ZERO MPG.
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Corona
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TxKent
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Pflugerville, TX | reply to imacsal
I thought Cintra was a Spanish company? I guess we have a lot of German politicos around here too..
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j9_ls1
join:2002-07-22
Austin, TX | reply to TxKent
zee Germans...  |
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TxKent
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Pflugerville, TX
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My point of view on this whole thing is very simple: toll roads suck. I will NEVER pay to drive on one. Gas taxes are so high - there has to be some mis-management by the powers that be to not have enough money to build the roads without those #$#%!! toll booths every couple of miles.
I keep wondering - "who is getting rich off this deal?"
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j9_ls1
join:2002-07-22
Austin, TX | reply to robbin
yeah, funny nothing ever came of their "super secret newly discovered conspiracy documents" proving the toll roads were built incorrectly...LMAO...that is why we let the engineers be engineers. |
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robbin
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join:2000-09-21
Leander, TX
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said by j9_ls1 :quit being vague...I think that you are not clear enough, and that is the why people doubt you. I doubt Sal because he twists the truth to suit his agenda. Then if you try to honestly debate him, he either accuses you of being on the take in the toll road conspiracy or just not knowing the "true facts" as those who dwell in the "muck" (such as himself) do!  |
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j9_ls1
join:2002-07-22
Austin, TX
| reply to imacsal
quit being vague. There are several toll roads currently being contstucted in Austin that are NOT from our tax dollars. It is bonded money. For instance, the MOPAC extension, 183a, are bonded, not from our pockets. I think that you are not clear enough, and that is the why people doubt you. |
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imacsal
join:2004-05-12
Austin, TX
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Who are you kidding. I never had your support.
In Austin, we don't get new free roads like Williamson County.
Hundreds of millions of our tax dollars have gone into right of way, construction and utility relocation to permanently take sections of our free expressways:
MOPAC
183
290
71
360 (still in the toll plan)
You can thank these crooks for tolls on roads we've already paid for:
»www.texastollparty.com/looters_c···ters.php
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McSummation
Mmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.
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join:2003-08-13
Round Rock, TX | reply to imacsal
You just lost my support.
None of these are "tollable" roads. |
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imacsal
join:2004-05-12
Austin, TX
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For two years Travis County has been told, by the powers that be, that we must toll our freeways because there is no more money for free roads. Yet somehow, over the same two years, Williamson County has been given numerous free roads, without toll booths:
• FM 1660 from CR 134 to CR 101
• IH-35/SH 29 Interchange turnaround structures
• US 79 from east city limits of Hutto to CR 402
• US 79 from east of Taylor to the Milam county line
• RM 2338 from FM 3405 to Ronald Reagan Boulevard and
• US 183 from San Gabriel River to SH 29. |
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McSummation
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join:2003-08-13
Round Rock, TX | reply to imacsal
Name the "several" roads. Roads that are not being paid for by my Williamson County taxes. |
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imacsal
join:2004-05-12
Austin, TX | reply to imacsal
Pleanty of free roads for WilCo have been approved by CAMPO over the past 2 years. |
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McSummation
Mmmm, Zeebas Are Tastee.
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join:2003-08-13
Round Rock, TX | reply to imacsal
What free roads are being built in Williamson County that are being funded by Travis County money? |
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imacsal
join:2004-05-12
Austin, TX | reply to McSummation
TX 130, TX 45, 183A are all NEW routes. The only tolls being placed on existing freeway's take place in Travis County. |
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