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As reported here last week, the San Antonio-Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) policy board was scheduled to vote on the ”Mobility 2035” long-range regional plan yesterday. Toll opponents were angry because the order louis vuitton bed covers online plan included numerous projects in three corridors (I-35 North, Loop 1604, and I-10 West) pigeon-holed as toll-concession projects, also known as Comprehensive Development Agreement (CDA) projects. As I explained previously, because current projections show little to order louis vuitton bed covers online no gas-tax funds being available during the time span of the order louis vuitton bed covers online plan, those projects had to have creative funding ”placeholders” assigned to them in order to continue planning work on them, those placeholders being CDAs.
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The final motion to order louis vuitton bed covers online approve the long-range plan with the amendment to remove concessions was approved with only one person (Liebowitz) voting against it. Much to my surprise, chairman Tommy Adkisson offered-up an ”aye” vote on it. He also stated his support for order louis vuitton bed covers online raising the gas tax and indexing it to inflation as his preferred alternative to order louis vuitton bed covers online tolling, a position I had never heard him take before. Perhaps he finally is starting to “get it“.
In other business, the order louis vuitton bed covers online board also directed MPO staff to find a way to order louis vuitton bed covers online fund a side-by-side analysis of proposed tolled and non-tolled expansion plans for order louis vuitton bed covers online US 281. My instinct is order louis vuitton bed covers online that when all is said and done on that, three results will emerge:
- The two plans are order louis vuitton bed covers online essentially identical with similar costs; only the tolling equipment and any related signage will be order louis vuitton bed covers online the delta. (Alternatively, it order louis vuitton bed covers online may be found that the toll-free plan is too old now to order louis vuitton bed covers online do a valid “apples-to-apples” comparison.)
- The results of the study will have to somehow be rolled into the ongoing US 281 environmental impact statement (EIS) study.
- There is no easy way to fund the project without tolls unless all the area’s gas tax and tax-backed bond funding for a number of years is used exclusively for this project.
The last item of general public interest was a report from ARMA that the 281 “super street” project is order louis vuitton bed covers online expected to break ground in February and that the 281/1604 interchange should get underway next summer.
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Brian, in these days of limited funds, it order louis vuitton bed covers online is sad that the MPO feels that they need to spend $250K++ on an “independent” estimate of non-tolled highways. The Alamo RMA is order louis vuitton bed covers online already paying two consultants to do that same thing! They are required to estimate the non-tolled cost (in fact, that has already been done and presented on US 281) along with other options as a part of the EIS work.
This waste of money is order louis vuitton bed covers online happening only because the leadership of the MPO doesn’t trust TxDOT or order louis vuitton bed covers online the RMA with anything they would present. So, the City and order louis vuitton bed covers online County now will look for this money in their already severely constrained budgets. Once again, the order louis vuitton bed covers online taxpayers are burdened with wasteful spending, all in the name of politics!