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Entries tagged with 'NTTA'NTTA already accountableRe: "Oversight for NTTA -- Tollway agency would benefit from state analysis," Thursday Editorials. The North Texas Tollway Authority acknowledges the concerns you outlined. However, your recommendations for oversight are inappropriate. The NTTA has several layers of accountability, including a... Transparency for NTTARe: "Oversight for NTTA -- Tollway agency would benefit from state analysis," Thursday Editorials. Oversight from the state auditor and the Texas Sunset Commission for the North Texas Tollway Authority would be a wise move. But it is in taxpayers'... Frustrated with the NTTAI am beginning to understand why so many citizens are angry at the North Texas Tollway Authority. On Oct. 2, I received an invoice from the NTTA for $11.44 in unpaid charges. I wrote them a letter explaining I had... NTTA's 'gold-plated' roadsRe: "Oversight for NTTA -- Tollway agency would benefit from state analysis," Thursday Editorials. Your editorial calling for oversight of the North Texas Tollway Authority is long overdue. However, the oversight should not be limited to an analysis of NTTA... The NTTA puzzleRe: "NTTA pays big price for outside help -- Longtime consultants getting more for even the smallest jobs," Sunday news story. This report may not have provided the most comforting weekend read, but it was the most provocative. If you... Toll troubles with a rent carLike most drivers, I realized long ago that the North Texas Tollway Authority was no different from any other taxpayer-funded state agency with only one ongoing agenda -- to raise more money to stay in business. This was again reinforced... Wrong-way sensors a mistakeRe: "Toll authority to try wrong-way sensors -- On heels of crashes, system that alerts DPS will be tested," Thursday news story. The North Texas Tollway Authority plan to use sensors to alert the Department of Public Safety about vehicles... Model Phoenix HOV lanesRe: "Meditations on the HOV," by John D. McCall, last Sunday Community Opinions Letters. I must agree that the first step to make the HOV lanes more useful would be to remove the plastic pylons. They are dirty, ugly and... Why have a speed limit?Re: "Unsafe at higher speeds," by Elwin Bullard, last Sunday Community Opinions Letters. My husband and I have driven on President George Bush Turnpike very often the last two months and have been stunned at the excessive speed driven by... Unsafe at higher speedsThe North Texas Tollway Authority says it is experiencing a budget shortfall. So rather than enforce the current speed limit and collect fines from drivers who chose to flagrantly disobey the law (anything over 60 mph in a 55 mph... Why tolls are unfairWhere is the fairness in paying only gas tax to drive to Dallas on U.S. Highway 75, but paying both gas tax and toll on the Dallas North Tollway? If we decide to fund highways with tolls, let's put toll... Anyone joining the toll-road boycott?Our blog readers were breathing fire after NTTA's decision last week to raise tolls by 32 percent. Many vowed to toss their TollTags, boycott the tollways and commute on free surface streets. Will you be one of them? Tollway... Speeding to the danger zoneRe: "Toll road speed limits could max out at 70 -- Increases for Dallas North Tollway and Bush Turnpike to reflect how most drive," Thursday news story. Increasing the toll roads' speed limits to 70 mph will only widen the... Out of the inboxWhen I came in to work this morning, I was expecting to find lots of letters about Sarah Palin inspired by the story we ran this morning. But the cupboard was bare. I'd guess people have been inundated with comments... On the toll roads: Why not TollTags?Re: "Highway Robbery -- NTTA should ease up on aggressive collections," last Sunday Editorials. Has the North Texas Tollway Authority studied why so many motorists do not have a TollTag? Are motorists not aware that they need only one account... NTTA making bad decisionsRe: "Toll road speed limits could max out at 70 -- Increases for Dallas North Tollway and Bush Turnpike to reflect how most drive," Thursday news story. Traffic figures are down because people can't afford tolls. The North Texas Tollway... "Traffic down in Dallas'? -- What's your view?The gentleman from Kentucky, my esteemed colleague Michael Lindenberger, eased into the TTI urban traffic congestion report with a somewhat upbeat rendering. It was the right headline based on the figures in the biennial report. On the editorial page, meanwhile,... Key NTTA shortcomingsRe: "Highway Robbery -- NTTA should ease up on aggressive collections," Sunday Editorials. If I intentionally don't pay for something, I should be arrested and prosecuted. I agree that the North Texas Tollway Authority needs to get its act together.... I can do without flowersI've got a great cost-saving idea for the North Texas Tollway Authority: Stop the landscaping! Every day, I watch armies of workers digging, planting, mulching, weeding and fertilizing acres of decorative plants lining the Bush Turnpike. They've even installed sprinklers... NTTA correct to collectRe: "Left unpaid, tolls grow -- and fast -- Cash-strapped NTTA steps up efforts to collect from scofflaws," Wednesday news story. Rightly, the North Texas Tollway Authority levies fines against people who do not pay what they owe for using... |