-TxDOT will benefit by being able to strike the roadways off their list of responsibilities
              while at the same time maintaining the same gasoline and sales tax revenue which would be
              applied to a smaller number of roadways.

            -Governor Rick Perry has received over $1,000,000 from highway interests since 1997,
              inlcuding $30,000 less than 1 week before signing a $1.5 Billion contract with Fluor
              Coporation. He will also benefit by reducing the state budget demands and potentially being
              able to divert the revenue to other programs such as his massive Trans_Texas Corridor
              project.

            -Jon Lindsay and Peggy Hamric, along with other local politicians will benefit by the greater
              amount of funds they will have to spend. In addition, if they own, their families own, or
              their political friends own land in the areas along the new corridors, there will be a
              tremendous financial benefit to their land values.

            -Jerry Eversole, Robert Eckels, Steve Radack, Sylvia Garcia, and El Franco Lee who make
              up the Harris County Commissioners Court benefit by the greater amount of funds they will
              have to spend. In addition, Robert Eckels accepted $93,250 in campaign contributions
              from road builders and suburban developers including roadway contractor Charles Beyer and
              Bob Perry of Perry Homes. Houston Press

            -Robert Tesch, Chairman of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority bought
              land that has increased in value since 2002 by over $3.7 million since the aprroval of
              the US 183A toll project less than 2 miles away from his properties. Carole Keeton
              Strayhorn our State Comptroller has called for his resignation along with another board
              member in a scathing Audit of the CTRMA.