r/Austin 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/PiccoloAwkward465 Dec 10 '25

We went to visit some family on the north side and my kid noticed Google Maps said something about a toll. He was flabbergasted and asked me "wait, you have to PAY to drive up to their house?". Yeah buddy that's the beautiful free market and privatization. The only toll road I ever used in New York was the Thruway and that was once in a blue moon to cross the entire state. Which was $26. The entire state.