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How to Fix Transportation? * USA - More Taxes, More Tolls and More Flexibility, Says TxDOT's Holmes
Texas Transportation Commissioner, Ned Holmes, acknowledged before a U.S. Senate committee, that private toll roads and privatized bridges cannot solve the country's transportation financing problems by themselves
Dallas,TX,USA -The Dallas Morning News, by Michael Lindenberger -28 April 2009: -- Though he is known as an ardent supporter of private toll roads, Texas Transportation Commissioner, Ned Holmes, acknowledged before a U.S. Senate committee on April 28 that private toll roads and privatized bridges cannot solve the country's transportation financing problems by themselves... Texas Gov., Rick Perry, chose Holmes to lead the national Transportation Transformation advocacy group, which pressures Congress for private toll roads, but for at least a year Holmes has been saying that more taxes will also be necessary to close the funding gaps... During the Senate committee hearing, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) asked Holmes for his opinion on a bill she filed that would allow states to decline to participate in the federal highway program and instead choose for themselves how to spend federal gas tax receipts. Holmes responded that the bill would provide states with much more flexibility to design and implement their transportation systems, although he also said that flexibility would be within the constraints of appropriate federal standards... (Photo from farm1.static.flickr: Texas' a highway view)
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