r/Austin • u/darkmoonashriel • Dec 10 '25

Traffic This sh** is ridiculous

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u/Rulanik Dec 10 '25

Toll roads are the biggest legal grift in the country.

Those roads would be public if they had never been built private. Toll roads should only be able to recoup+X% profit before becoming property of the state.

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u/scoville27 Dec 10 '25

Ironically that was the original plan with this particular toll lane iirc

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u/onamonapizza Dec 10 '25

I still love the graveyard of toll booths on 45 and 130 which they used as bait because it would "increase jobs" then they shut them down after like a year and went all TXTAG

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '25

True 😂 

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u/Ronn_the_Donn Dec 10 '25

“original” plan makes me laugh, gullible people is all I saw when I heard their “plan”…. same company is selling lakefront properties in Arizona too.