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Follow TURFTruck toll discount another flop for SH 130
By Ben Wear
Austin American Statesman
November 20, 2013
A toll discount for trucks on Texas 130 has significantly increased big-rig traffic on that road since the program began April 1, likely luring several hundred trucks a day off of Interstate 35 through Central Texas.
Despite that, what was projected to be a yearlong pilot program on the entire 89-mile tollway likely will be discontinued on the southern 40 miles at the end of the month, and, in the next couple of months, it likely will cease on the other 49 miles of the highway. The reason: lost revenue.
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