Toll roads and the atypical working mom.

Letters:

2/27/2006

San Antonio Express-News
Copyright 2006

Taxpayers charged twice

I thank Carlos Guerra for his column "Are toll roads really about traffic, or perhaps about big contracts?" (Feb. 12).

I'm not against toll roads. I'm against using existing roads that have been paid for by taxpayers and reallocating them as toll roads, thereby charging taxpayers twice.

I'm very against using a foreign company to do the work. We don't need foreign countries with their hands in our pockets any more than they are already. If were going to do something for Texas, then these contracts should be let to Texas companies so we don't have foreign countries with control over our highways.

- Earl Phillips,

Universal City

Atypical working mom

The only letter in "Focus: Toll roads" (Tuesday) that supports toll roads and Joe Krier's opinion is from Brenda Vickery Johnson, the president of Vickery & Associates ("Give drivers a choice").

Johnson noted she is a "working mom" who would benefit from being able to run errands on a toll road.

Vickery & Associates is a highway contractor, and Johnson is on the boards of both the San Antonio Greater Chamber of Commerce and the San Antonio Mobility Coalition.

I doubt many other working moms are equally enthusiastic about toll roads.

- Bill Barker

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