Boycott the Border Highway Toll Road

Boycott the Border Highway toll road and contact members of the Board of the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority.

What follows is the letter that I just submitted online to the El Paso Times. I have added links to the Times stories in this post.

I was dismayed when I read in the Times this morning that ACE Cash Express is selling toll tags for the new toll lanes on the Cesar Chavez Border Highway. This story follows Sunday's story about Gov. Perry's appointment of William White of Cash America as Chairman of the Texas Finance Commission. 

There is nothing different between the ethics of a payday lender and a crack cocaine dealer. And now, the the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority is, in effect, introducing people - many who are the most financially vulnerable in our society - to the "drug" dealer. The excuse given by Mr. Telles the Chairman of the CRRMA for using payday bloodsuckers as toll tag agents: they can take payments in cash. Well, so can grocery and convenience stores.

Let's all boycott the Border Highway Toll Road. Contact CRRMA Board members and tell them you will not support the road until a new toll tag agent is selected. Their contact information can be found at http://www.crrma.org/contact.asp#Board. The CRRMA Board meets next on January 8, 2014 at 9:00 am in the El Paso City Council Chambers on the 1st Floor of City Hall, 300 N. Campbell. Let's be there to voice our disgust.