Barbara Ann Radnofsky People for Efficient Transportation PAC Questionnaire

Candidate Name: Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Office you are seeking: U.S. Senate
Candidate email: barbara@radnofsky.com
Candidate website: www.radnofsky.com

1) Will you support legislation and actively campaign to require local economic impact studies, cost benefit studies and other viability studies for all toll roads and other transportation plans, including but not limited to the Texas Trans Texas Corridor, rail, HOV, and HOT lanes to ensure accountability?

Select One:
Yes X
No

2) Will you support legislation and actively campaign to allow the public to vote whether ANY local existing route (public freeway) will be shifted to a tollway or not?

Select One:
Yes X
No

3) Will you support legislation and actively campaign to keep tolls off ALL public highways.

Select One:
Yes X
No

4) Will you support legislation and actively campaign to close the Trans Texas Corridor/Eminent Domain loophole created in the last session.

Select One:
Yes X
No

5) Will you support legislation and actively campaign to prevent control of our roads, rail and utilities from being handed over to private or/and foreign interests?

Select One:
Yes X
No

6) Will you support legislation and actively campaign for a requirement of nonelected RMA board members to disclose ALL real estate and business holdings?

Select One:
Yes X
No

7) Currently a Travis County RMA board member (Johanna Zmud) was reappointed by Travis County Commissioners even though her board membership and company contract
with TxDOT violates provisions in the Transportation Code.

Will you support legislation and actively campaign to keep nonelected RMA board members from serving when they can profit, have conflicts of interests, or have a potential for self enrichment?

Select One:
Yes X
No

8) Will you support and actively campaign to allow each local region to have the choice to vote to have the option to add a local gas tax to replace the inefficient freeway tolls? (and the money to be controlled by elected officials, not appointed ones)

Select One:
Yes X
No

9) Texans would like to get the most for every transportation tax dollar. (GAO Report – 2003 Comparison of States Highway Construction Costs : A comprehensive study of 25 states revealed a median cost per lane mile of $1.6 million. TxDOT 130, Just East of Austin cost per lane mile is $7.6 million.


Will you support and actively campaign for a full review of TXDOT and its operations to explore ways to make transportation planning, design and construction more efficient, more accountable and more cost effective - to open up and clean up the "good old boy"
bidding process of TxDOT?

Select One:
Yes X
No

10) Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues. Every demographic group in Texas wants Initiative and Referendum. A recent survey showed 74% of Texans want I & R.(http://www.initiativefortexas.org/whowants.htm) Texas
is one of only three western states in which the Legislature still denies citizens the right of initiative.

Will you support, actively campaign for and co-sponser a constitutional amendment providing Texans with rights of Initiative and Referendum?

Select One:
Yes X
No

11) Will you have your comprehensive positions on Double Tax Freeway Tolls and the Trans Texas Corridor posted in an easy to find "issues" area on your website by this week?

Select One:
Yes X . This will be promptly posted at www.radnofsky.com
No

12) Will you incorporate your positions on Double Tax Freeway Tolls and the Trans Texas Corridor in your speeches?

Select One:
Yes X
No


Additional Comments and/or how you will take the lead on any of these issues within 90 days of your election:

I’ve already spoken and blogged against the Trans-Texas Corridor and am posting this questionnaire on the issues portion of my website. Both the Republican and Democratic platforms voice valid objection to the TTC, with which I agree. The Democratic platform states: “We oppose the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor, a proposal that is little more than an attempt to transfer ownership of a strip down the middle of the state to a foreign corporation with close ties to the Governor, which could have potentially devastating effect on rural areas, property owners and communities. We also oppose the use of eminent domain to deprive any property owner of the possession, use, or the ability to control the use of their property, for the pure purpose of economic development; without just compensation; in the absence of an obvious and compelling public need.”