CAMPO delays funding vote on second wave of Austin toll roads.
Board postpones vote on toll road funding
CAMPO will take up issue in July.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 2006
What appears to be an increasingly skeptical board of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization on Monday night once again delayed a vote on funding for a second wave of toll roads.
Money for the roads had been authorized when the the CAMPO board approved the toll road plan in 2004, but the funding plan has lapsed, necessitating another vote.
Supporters of the five-road toll road plan had asked that the board of mostly elected officials authorize spending $448 million, about a third of the road projects' total cost, on engineering and right of way purchases.
Bob Daigh, the Austin district engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation, said the work paid for by that money would be equally applicable if the roads have or don't have tolls.
But state Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, after asking a series of questions about the toll road plan, proposed delaying the vote until the July meeting.
Only Travis County Commissioner Karen Sonleitner voted against the delay.
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CAMPO will take up issue in July.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Austin American-Statesman
Copyright 2006
What appears to be an increasingly skeptical board of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization on Monday night once again delayed a vote on funding for a second wave of toll roads.
Money for the roads had been authorized when the the CAMPO board approved the toll road plan in 2004, but the funding plan has lapsed, necessitating another vote.
Supporters of the five-road toll road plan had asked that the board of mostly elected officials authorize spending $448 million, about a third of the road projects' total cost, on engineering and right of way purchases.
Bob Daigh, the Austin district engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation, said the work paid for by that money would be equally applicable if the roads have or don't have tolls.
But state Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, after asking a series of questions about the toll road plan, proposed delaying the vote until the July meeting.
Only Travis County Commissioner Karen Sonleitner voted against the delay.
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