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August 14, 2017

Texas bucks trend by ending some highway tolls

  • Tolls will be eliminated on a highway in El Paso, and Dallas has rejected plans to build a new toll road. One state official blames “toll fatigue."
    • By DAVID WARREN
    Associated Press

    DALLAS — Texas officials have recently moved to scrap tolls on several highways for the first time in 40 years, bucking a national trend toward more tolls on mostly urban roadways to shift the costs of transportation to those who use the roads.

    A regional authority voted last week to eliminate tolls on the Cesar Chavez Border Highway in El Paso. On the same day, some 600 miles away, the Dallas city council rejected plans to build a toll road along the Trinity River near downtown. The council's action appears to be the death knell for a toll project that was debated for decades as a way to alleviate congestion along a network of aging, narrow highways.


     
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