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Texas Lege whirlwind continues to throw dust storm over future of TRs Today is a very big day for tollroads in Texas 2007-05-18 TOLLROADSnews (1) In the legislature (Lege in Texan) there are efforts today to reconcile differences between House and Senate versions of HB792, which is being rushed to try to beat a constitutional deadline of midnight tonight (Friday) to provide the Governor with an alternative to HB1892 - the concession freeze/TxDOT-killer bill. HB1892 was passed nearly unanimously by legislators in both houses a couple of weeks back. They seem to have since quietly realized the idiocy of what they did in that bill, and by reviving an earlier bill SB792 having been trying provide the Governor with a substitute so he doesn't have to act on the bill-they-now-regret. Someone once said that laws are like sausages. You don't want to see the manufacturing process. What goes in and what goes on is liable to make even people with a strong stomach throw up. At Texas Lege Sausage Treats Unlimited a close watch of operations generates that bad stomach feeling but they also have trouble simply getting product out the door. At least when they finally do put their bad product on the street they immediately go to work on a recall. (2) NTTA is this afternoon due to release it's bid for SH121, the effort to top the previously selected concessionaire Cintra/JP Morgan. The proposal won't be available on NTTA's website or by email attachments, only by CD. Each of these will be reported first in the Texas press. Dallas Morning News and Austin Statesman are good sources to google for immediate news. Here we'll try to get into what's happened in the course of next week. TOLLROADSnews 2007-05-18
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