Tag Archives: North American trade
Gateway to globalization: Texas toll roads, reinvestment zones and trade corridors
Despite high hopes that lawmakers would address the chronic road funding shortfall at the outset of the 83rd session of the Texas legislature, Texas taxpayers only saw $534 million of $1.2 billion in diversions of gas tax revenues returned to roads (for the next two years) with a reliance on more toll roads to fill the remaining $4 billion annual funding gap. That’s only one-eighth of the money needed.
Posted in Trade & Economics, Transportation
Tagged Carlos Uresti, CDAs, Comprehensive Development Agreements, David Dewhurst, Donna Campbell, Double Tax, freeways, George Lavender, Jim Keffer, Joe Straus, Judith Zaffirini, Ken Paxton, Kiewit, Kirk Watson, Larry Phillips, Linda Harper-Brown, Lois Kolkhorst, Mexican States, Mexico, NAFTA trade corridors, North American trade, P3s, Panama Canal, public-private partnerships, Regional Mobility Authorities, Rick Perry, RMAs, Robert Nichols, Texas legislature, Texas state highway system, Texas Transportation Committee, tollways, Trans-Texas Corridor, Transportation Reinvestment Zones, TRZ, TTC, TxDOT
