Dr. William E. Thornton, Chairman of the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority (Alamo RMA) today issued the following statement regarding the vote taken by Bexar County Commissioners Court.
"Today's action by Commissioners Court is the start of a detailed and necessary process to help examine the request by Commissioner Wolff. Commissioner Wolff has agreed that we need to create a working group of the Alamo RMA and Bexar County to explore in detail this concept of merging, what the potential benefits and impacts could be, and what type of timeline would be necessary to allow for the completion of the ongoing environmental impact statements on Loop 1604 and US 281, as well as the start of providing relief from Bandera to US 281 along Loop 1604 for the first toll project in Bexar County.
The Alamo RMA has exercised primacy over toll projects on US 281 and on Loop 1604, and has the ability to do so on IH 35. This right is essential to keeping the decisions about toll projects local, instead of being made in Austin.
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There are still a number of questions to be answered as part of this examination, and we will do all we can to work, in partnership with the Commissioners Court, to answer these questions. Our goal, above all else, is to ensure that the local control over the planning, financing, construction, operations and revenue remains in place for any toll projects within Bexar County."