More toll roads coming

Because republicans believe that adding a profit motive and adding a profit to the cost of basic services is a good thing. Especially, if their crony is getting the profits and the taxpayers are paying the costs.

A project to build northbound and southbound connectors from U.S. Expressway 77/83 to the future SH 550 toll road has received $25.5 million from the Texas Department of Transportation.

The connectors will be developed where SH 550 meets Expressway 77/83 at North Olmito Road. The funding for the Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority project comes from TxDOT’s Pass Through Financing Program, which will reimburse the CCRMA each year to service the debt on the money CCRMA borrowed for construction.