BIKE: The "road lobby"

[Mike Dahmus]

Roger Baker wrote:

> McCracken is the immediate hero here, but he likely wouldn't have done 
> it without Sal Costello, SOSA, and all the independent grassroots 
> organizing.
>
> On CAMPO, McCracken's resolution got defeated about 2 to 1, with 
> Gerald Daugherty on the bad side, along with CAMPO Director Aulick. 
> TxDOT's Bob Daigh deserves a special bad actor award for expressing 
> his opinion just before the CAMPO vote, with no reasons given, that 
> any independent study of the CAMPO plan would be likely to threaten 
> TxDOT funding for our area. -- Roger


Just like the transit people in Austin with Mike Krusee, you've been 
completely snookered if you think these people are your friends.

The goal of McCracken et al is NOT to stop building these roads; it is 
to build these roads quickly as FREE HIGHWAYS.

In other words, McCracken and Costello ___ARE___ THE ROAD LOBBY!

Keep that in mind, folks. Slusher and Bill Bunch don't want the roads at 
all, but pretty much everybody else who voted against the toll plan 
wants to build them as free roads.

And these highways built free is a far worse prospect for Austin and 
especially central Austin than if they're built as toll roads, in every 
possible respect.

- MD