The Death Toll: An Expensive Tollway's High Cost In Human Lives
www.texasobserver.org
State Highway 288 was built by a private equity firm, letting TxDOT abdicate its responsibility to both drivers and construction workers.
  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    During public meetings from 2007 to 2013, community members called for an HOV lane or a public railway to be built on the median of SH 288 to alleviate congestion. Those alternatives, they argued, would encourage commuters to share rides and put fewer cars on the road.

    What they got instead was a 10-mile, billion-dollar tollway

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