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Texas roads are already bad now, nothing else could be done that is worse. Fix the roads
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Nonsense posted:Texas roads are already bad now, nothing else could be done that is worse. Fix the roads *Monkeys Paw closes* Roads are fixed, but are now all toll roads by default.
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Apr 29, 2024 15:51
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i voted for sjl and am feeling very vindicated in doing so
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Apr 29, 2024 15:54
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also houston needs to get rid of its revenue cap, absolutely insane idea
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https://twitter.com/MickJagger/status/1784642186358694293
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love that burger king
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Mick Jagger eats there
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Is he wearing a belt on his waist, above his pants?
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tecnocrat posted:*Monkeys Paw closes* Im down for all roads being toll roads. Charge the people that are using it the most to pay for the road's upkeep, make people consider the cost of their drives on the environment, help fund public transit. All good things, meaning Texas will never do it.
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The tolls will only be used to build more toll roads, not maintain current ones. When I drove on sh 130 several years ago, it was so bumpy it was like they were trying to simulate riding a horse. I can't imagine how much worse it has gotten.
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Apr 29, 2024 18:34
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Jesus III posted:Im down for all roads being toll roads. Charge the people that are using it the most to pay for the road's upkeep, make people consider the cost of their drives on the environment, help fund public transit. All good things, meaning Texas will never do it. Road tolls do not go towards a road's upkeep, they get sold off for short-term gain and collected in perpetuity by some third party while the state is still on the hook for maintenance. Also the way that road tolls are generally designed, they make sure to put the tolls on the roads that were otherwise there to take pressure off congestion. It costs more to avoid inner city traffic, funnelling cars into the densest places.
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Apr 29, 2024 18:42
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every entrance to the austin city limits is $60, leaving is free
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i say swears online posted:every entrance to the austin city limits is $60, leaving is free I believe that's the system for New York City. Philadelphia also has a lot of tolls, which creates the situation where you have to pay to get out of New Jersey.
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Apr 29, 2024 18:57
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Doesn't some french company own pretty much all the toll roads in Houston? The money doesn't even go into some rich AMERICAN fat cat!
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Spanish, and DFW.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Road tolls do not go towards a road's upkeep, they get sold off for short-term gain and collected in perpetuity by some third party while the state is still on the hook for maintenance. They currently don't. I was talking about what I want, not what is currently happening.
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Won’t someone please think of the drivers 
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Badger of Basra posted:Won’t someone please think of the drivers Shouldn’t you be complaining to Brandon about the CTA
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on sunday evenings I go to the parking garage and let my car run for a few minutes so the battery doesn't die
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https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/25/crystal-mason-illegal-voting-texas-tarrant-county/ Texas is still Texasing.
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https://twitter.com/tplohetski/status/1785031364234117623 Strategically placed rocks.
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It's soup for my family.
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You don't need a permit for that concealed rock in Texas
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Bullets are just concealed rocks
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Rocks are just concealed bullets.
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"Blades" of grass!?
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murdering a cop with my razor-sharp wit
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I know Abbott just wants to sew chaos and destroy UT-Austin's reputation and student well-being, but like...how did UT-Austin leadership experience what happened Wednesday, see nearly a week of peaceful protests, then decide that the most reasonable thing to do was do the exact same thing over again? I'm not dismissing protesters as rich kids, but UT has a lot of students with nosy rich parents and some of those students have to be in the protest getting beat up. How are those parents not screaming at the administration right now? They threw flash bombs and pepperspray at a bunch of college students who hadn't seen any aggressive acts before or after the police showed up.
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they don't care about making sense or being right, op
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I assume the office of the governor or some of the regents called up Hartzell and told him what time it was.
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University of Texas System Board of Regents are Abbott toadies. Leadership is doing exactly what they intended to do.
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Dameius posted:University of Texas System Board of Regents are Abbott toadies. Leadership is doing exactly what they intended to do. That suuuucks. Why do we have to have so many people in power whose whole purpose is to just make everything bad? Why do we live like this?
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:That suuuucks. Why do we have to have so many people in power whose whole purpose is to just make everything bad? Why do we live like this? Because we live in a democratic system and your neighbors, friends, and family voted for things to be bad
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litany of gulps posted:Because we live in a democratic system and your neighbors, friends, and family voted for things to be bad They actually voted for things that are gonna make their political opponents upset. They don’t even care if things are good or bad.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:That suuuucks. Why do we have to have so many people in power whose whole purpose is to just make everything bad? Why do we live like this? Texas is one of many places that have the more urbanized areas counterbalanced by huge tracts of nothing in rural areas that the current political leadership relies on to maintain power. The Republican party as a whole developed a heavy "oppose everything always regardless of whether it makes sense and never bother trying to figure out how to please people or actually function as a government" philosophy in the 80s-90s between Ronald Reagan's charismatic minarchism bullshit and Bill Clinton's fairly tame policies that Newt Gingrich swore a blood oath against. Under W the party had a rocky time riding off of both Reagan bullshit and the 9/11 surge of jingoism to maintain power, but when Obama came along, the party could switch back to the comfort of opposition and also tapped into the reawakened insecurity of bigots afraid of what a black man in power could mean, and the Republican party has gone further and further on that trying to ferret out more hate and resentment and more enemies to rile up the base, and when the base is sufficiently riled, they try to win points by hurting the people they hate. Although if you look at things more broadly, the current love/hate basis for the party divide might not have been established if LBJ dragged his heels on civil rights, which prompted the majority of the South to switch parties since the democrats would no longer be the party of continuing the old Southron order. Although if Republicans had stuck to their roots as the anti-slavery party and gone on to maintain support for civil rights after the civil war, they wouldn't have been in a position to take up the banner of racism after the Democratic party dropped it. A major step of the Republicans abandoning blacks was after many of them became uncomfortable about letting blacks rise in the party after a black man from Galveston became Texas party chairman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement And if you go back further, Texas got all that extra rural land as sort of a reward for making absurd border claims that the US used as a casus belli to fight a war of conquest on Mexico because Manifest Destiny was a great distraction from the political issue of slavery which many people had intense opinions on that paralyzed a lot of federal politics.
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It was a rhetorical question...we could know that answer in every which way and still not fully comprehend the why, oh god, why of Texas politics.litany of gulps posted:Because we live in a democratic system and your neighbors, friends, and family voted for things to be bad My family definitely did, but in another state. I'm in Austin and everywhere I've lived here most people are Democrats. They just voted for liberal NIMBY stuff, at the worst I met some folks from the east coast recently and they expressed worry about being in a deeply conservative place. But like...it was downtown Austin, so not the conservative they were worried about.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:I know Abbott just wants to sew chaos and destroy UT-Austin's reputation and student well-being, but like...how did UT-Austin leadership experience what happened Wednesday, see nearly a week of peaceful protests, then decide that the most reasonable thing to do was do the exact same thing over again? From reading over the Daily Texan’s reporting on it, they saw a tent, and by god this noble Republic will not abide a tent
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https://www.tpr.org/environment/2024-04-30/ercot-cautions-of-a-potential-power-emergency-this-week IT BEGINS!!  Texas Public Radio posted:ERCOT late last week warned of a potential power emergency starting Monday evening through Wednesday. The electrical grid operator said there may be a shortfall of power reserves, and that it was adjusting planned power plant outages to shore up supply for the anticipated shortage.
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