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Originally Posted by Double L
It's very bad. They've shut down the plan for toll roads on 1604.
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Actually this is untrue. No toll road plans have been shut down.
281 was always the first segment to be tolled, it was first going to be just 281 to Stone Oak Parkway with future plans tolling 281 to Borgfeld Dr. Once 2005 construction was set to begin and the workers hit the sewage drain and the enviormental groups brought a lawsuit against TXDOT resulting in them having to get a new study down, which showed the tolls would cause no enviormental harm, TXDOT now plans to build the 281 to Borgfeld Dr. segment all at once starting next fall with future plans to toll 281 to FM 306.
Tolling 1604 is still a go and most likely will be privatized with Zachary and Cintra building the tolls and new or updated (tolled) interchanges at 1604/151, 1604/10W, 1604/281 (as part of the intial 281 toll), 1604/35, 1604/10E.
Future plans call for 10 being tolled from 1604 to Boerne and 35 from downtown to 1604 as well as a porposed elevated toll freeway running over Bandera Rd.