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So, for example, to move the toll roads, they're talking about how expensive it is to maintain

Why is it that states around the country now that have never had toll roads before are

talking about toll roads, they're meeting with national transportation officials talking

about installing toll roads, it's like the wave of the future is putting tolls on the

So the toll roads are a, they're being ushered in for reasons other than the real reason

be resisting, it's toll roads going into their communities, it is RFID going into anything

Do you have any comments about this RFID situation and the toll roads?

That's why you're going to hear a whole bunch about toll roads.

vehicles on certain toll roads and parking facilities.

Was it on a toll road or some limited access road?

because of course he's behind all the toll roads and everything else

This is about the toll roads, and it was mainly about the toll roads,

about turning our freeways into toll roads, the roads that we've already paid for.

And it only applied to toll roads? Is that?

so we cannot have one of these guys as our mayor, not only that, Carol Strayhorn, she was kicking butts on the toll roads back in 2004, 2005

And they're trying to show we have such an overwhelming need that we have to go to toll roads, and it came up to about $55 billion.

But if we had just the income we had from 98, a $450 billion that they're not using, we wouldn't have any need for toll roads.

Home appraisals are rising as local officials plan to raise the property tax rate to pay for a toll road on Highway 290 east here in Austin, Texas.

to pay for a toll road on Highway 290 East here in Austin, Texas.

tax rate to pay for a toll road on Highway 290 East here in Austin, Texas.

to pay for a toll road on Highway 290 East here in Austin, Texas.

and converting those into toll roads.

and trying to hijack more of these existing roads and convert to toll roads,

She's been a great anti-Toll Road activist and she's helped on this trans-Texas corridor,

Who knows what the future would be for these existing toll roads they've already had.

Right, if you pay tolls every day, or if you're using a highway that's not a toll road,

you need to look and see if that highway is about to become a toll road.

I don't take toll roads to work it back, so I'm not in it.

I don't know if any person who uses the toll road is going to have standing here.

Absolutely, they do, because everybody doesn't use the toll roads.

But in this case, it's only toll roads, so it doesn't affect people who don't use toll roads.

Well, it does affect people that do not use toll roads.

That's been one of my arguments, is that the fact that toll roads guarantee...

The real goal of all of this at some point, trans-Texas corridor, toll roads,

changing existing roads to toll roads, is the ultimate goal is they want to track some traces

like toll road, like up in the northeast.

We were there to protest them putting up these outrageous toll roads in Oak Hill

in making these decisions to create these toll road projects and finance the toll road projects,

I may have a really high dollar guy right in that area who's really concerned about this toll road issue.

And they're trying to swallow his facility in order to put in a toll road.

either directly in the path of the toll roads or directly in the path of eminent domain

I think people to put business on their toll road and closing off all exits, all access to the local community.

So if you're potentially being harmed by what Campo has done with regard to toll roads

If you've been harmed, past, present, or future by Campo and its activities with toll roads,

and turn those into toll roads.

and you make it a toll road and close that ramp,

or make it a toll road and increase my cost.

I mean, the only revenue they're going to lose is revenue to build more toll roads, that's all.

No, it was in Denver. My wife had rented a car and got on the toll road accidentally and went through,

It's actually the company that I guess is in charge of managing the toll roads is the one that sends out

since they took money from the public, unless this is an entirely private financed toll road,

and all the toll roads that are with it.

What do you guys think about the toll roads?

Well, yeah, and there's a lot of other issues too concerning the fact that the roads, depending on which toll road they are,

But then there's other toll roads that are private roads and so you don't have the right to travel on those roads if they're private

And so fighting the toll roads is a huge, huge political issue that is not really related to the transportation code

If a toll road is a private road and not a public thoroughfare, does the traffic law apply at all?

concerning the toll roads, he says he blazes right through the aisles that have the scanners

However, I just do want to make the comment that this is not really the solution to beat the toll roads

because in my book the toll roads are not really about double taxation, this is about the trans-Texas corridor

So anyway, concerning the toll roads, we have to fight this NAFTA superhighway with everything we've got

Well, the toll roads is a whole other issue that we may want to save for another program

We've stopped the toll roads.

that was going to be a toll road, people,

who put in so much work to stop the toll roads here in Austin.

And, of course, there still are some toll roads, but they're mostly new roads.

that have already been paid for into toll roads.

concerning, you know, traffic and toll roads and all these kinds of issues here in Austin.

and off of MOPAC if they intend to use a toll road.

What about these dang toll roads all around Austin and this area and everything and throughout Texas?

As for toll roads, I mean, they're just a pain in the posterior, if you know what I mean.

Well, I'll keep you all posted on the toll road issue.

are asking them to do for them, just like the toll road scenarios,

I was trying to digest it earlier, but I was at the Capitol all day fighting these toll roads.

And my understanding of toll roads is that those that are using them for business are the ones responsible for those fines and fees or whatever.

So if I actually got on a toll road, I'm taking the express lane.

It's like there's a toll road on every road.

So you've never been in a situation where you go through a toll road and some officer comes and assumes you're playing the game and then...

They might be about animal RFID or TSA Groping or toll roads.

About the traffic laws and the toll roads and stuff

There's only, what, two or three or more of that, but there's not that many of them in the state of Texas. We don't have that many toll roads,

But when we're going to see this more and more with the toll roads, we're going to confirm that it's private

Anyway, you said this is about the toll roads in Texas?

Okay, well, according to what I've seen relating to the toll roads, those are administrative fees.

And it doesn't matter where there's the traffic tickets, property taxes, toll roads, imminent domain.

We don't need to fight the trans-Texas corridor. We don't need to fight the stealing of our roads and converting them into toll roads. What we need to fight is the legislative morons that are selling out to these interests against the rights and will of the people.

In fact, if this weren't a toll road, I'd say maybe they're putting the free back in

Anyway, it's just a way to steal the lane and eventually they turn it into a toll road.

That's because officials in the Lone Star state have upped the speed limit on a toll road between Austin and San Antonio.

In fact, if this weren't a toll road, I'd say maybe they're putting the free back in freeway.

lone star state have upped the speed limit on a toll road between austin and san antonio they've

And then that got me thinking because I had just gotten a bill in the mail for 72 cents because evidently I was on a toll road somewhere. So my question is does this is the same thing as that falling to guilt by ownership that they snap the picture of my truck and are claiming that I owe 72 cents.

Now you can rebut it and say look I don't know why my car was on the toll road but what evidence do you have that I was the one behind the wheel and that I am somehow liable for this money for any reason other than the fact that I just happened to own the car.

Yeah. I mean I want toll roads gone. We bought and paid for those roads. If they use one penny of public funds to build that road that road rightfully belongs to the people.

apparently I traveled on a toll road and didn't know it.

You were talking about the ticket going through the toll road, and you were talking about how you got the notice in the mail for $3 and something.

It's a state toll road.

Whether they care to admit it or not, if they use one penny of public funds to build that toll road, it's a public road.

Toll roads and all that stuff is in the Transportation Code.

Well, the first thing you want to do is send them a PIR asking them, is one penny of this toll road funded with public funds?

They're the private company that handles all that for the whatever transportation authority that's doing that as far as the toll roads go.

Well, again, how do they send you back on a one-way toll road?

this is a toll road and you're expected to pay and you got on it anyway.

As far as the toll roads, I've heard that satin finish clear paint will deter those cameras.

I wish him lots of luck with that with mine. But all the same, I normally don't use the toll roads anyway.

The fact pattern of it is, is that a toll road is only applicable still to those that are using it for commerce.

toll selling is trying to tell me a whole bunch about toll roads and other things ah now the only

In fact, if this weren't a toll road, I'd say maybe they're putting the free back in

that's because officials in the Lone Star State have upped the speed limit on a toll road between Austin and San Antonio

in fact if this weren't a toll road I'd say maybe they're putting the free back in freeway

Same thing on a toll road.

If they use one penny of public funds to build that tollway, that toll road rightfully belongs

No, well, he was not paying toll road fees and he got arrested for it at the beginning

it's not a toll road or a parking facility.

That flexibility of title to vehicles on certain toll roads and parking facility.

As far as I know, this only applies to vehicles and persons who are operating the vehicle on a toll road.

He's saying that the code says it only applies to toll roads and...

yeah and no toll roads and parking facility

they caught me on a road that is not a toll road so it's essentially the code in virginia

that's the commercial traffic code seems to only apply to toll roads and parking garages

law to only apply to toll roads and parking garages that's almost too crazy to even contemplate

It applies to toll roads and parking facilities.

What do you know about the rules and regulations they use to govern the toll roads in Connecticut and New York?

Is it civil or is it criminal not to pay a toll on the toll road?

Well, it only applies to people who are driving or operating on toll roads or parking facilities.

only applied to toll roads and parking garages.

and it trapped me on a toll road.

That's because officials in the Lone Star State have upped the speed limit on a toll road

In fact, if this weren't a toll road, I'd say maybe they're putting the free back in freeway.

toll road traffic was except in the construction areas where it was kind of jam-packed for

I got this, it seems like a collection letter from Harris County Toll Road Authority talking

Well the first thing is, where does the toll road information exist?

The reason is I haven't put a whole lot of time into the toll road stuff.

You can do a search across all the codes for toll road just by doing a search and leaving

Just make sure you put toll road in double quotes when you put it in the search box.

my car was ever on the toll road.

I do think it is the toll road statutes are more than just the transportation code.

Go to the state statute website and search for that term toll road across all the codes

In the search field, you're going to put double quote toll road, double quote, search.

Then it will pull up every reference to toll road that's in every code in Texas.

I'm sorry, you said toll road and double quotes and what else?

Double quote at the beginning, toll road, double quote at the end, and then click the

It does the whole search, it's toll road, end quotes, got it.

Look and see if there's anything in the administrative code relating to toll roads as well.

So again, where did this allegedly take place on the toll road?

All right, great. All right, so I've got a toll road. I'll take it in the mail, I guess.

How much studying have you done over who has authority over the toll road,

who built the toll road, and who paid for the toll road?

If the toll road requirement to pay is found in the same code that regulates motor vehicles,

they cannot charge a member of the public for using the toll road

it's a toll road ticket uh i didn't even know i got the ticket because i was trying to dodge those

those signs that say this is a toll road coming up but evidently they found a place to give me

Talk to you a couple of weeks ago about fighting a toll road violation out here in California.

They're going to produce a toll tag or a photo of your car with the license plate going down the toll road.

When do you plan on filing for discovery to get copies of the financial information related to the toll road to see how the money was acquired to pay for that toll road?

From the company that manages the toll road.

So you send the request of that information to the state comptroller and you ask for an exact accounting on how much public funds in whatever form it may have been given or taken was used to finance the construction of that toll road.

If you have law in California that says all public accessible roads are open to the use of the public for their private business and pleasure, that would include toll roads, would it not?

The only way that a toll company could collect money from the public on a toll road legitimately is if the toll road is funded 100% privately.

Once you have that evidence, then all you have to do is start finding the information that proves that the toll roads fall under the same code as the commercial transportation, right?

Aren't all the toll road statutes and the exact same statutes as the commercial transportation?

the toll roads and using this and doing that. So far we haven't paid.

The next thing I have here is I've been dealing with a couple of these toll road violations.

So going forward, I challenged the Bill of Attainer, which does work with some other toll road companies. They dismiss it and whatnot, but this company does not.

If these are toll roads, is the company in the state you're in or is it not a state company?

Yeah, they were just going off of what the toll roads company had provided.

Exactly, and no one from the toll road was there to testify.

Okay, again, the toll road thing is slightly different than the traffic citation thing in relation to bill of pains and penalties.

Is there anything that shows your face in the toll road thing?

Then they can't prove you were the one in the car that got on the toll road and incurred these so-called tolls, right?

You can challenge that statute on constitutionality as that statute allows the existence of a bill of pains and penalties in the form of these toll road citations.

entering the toll road at any point of any time.

what's your other question um so i lost that appeals with the toll road and um wait you what

for the toll road violation uh-huh um i have i ended up losing that with the administrator

was any part of the toll road in question built using public funds

Hey, Eddie. I lost that toll road appeal, of course, with the administrative hearing and went to try to appeal it and there's no way for me to appeal it.

Even though the toll road company never filed a complaint with the county court.

Okay. Well, no, wait a minute. You started off with county court, not toll road company. What are we talking about here? Are we talking about something where they sued you and got a judgment?

The toll road company.

Oh, I know. Look, I just got off the toll road. How do I do these toll roads, guys? We've been

toll roads? I don't use them that much, and if they had coin booths, I'd be paying my coins and stuff,

I turned it the wrong place, and when I got in it, I realized it was a... went into the toll road.

So are y'all saying that all these little pesky toll road tickets I got

Because I don't want to pay all these little toll road tickets.

Well, we're talking about toll roads.

There was no sign saying this was toll road and it trapped me on the toll road.

for not paying a toll road ticket.

I got trapped on a toll road once where the entrance wasn't marked,

and I thought it was a road that would lead me around the block, but it trapped me on a toll road.