Update on the Monday night CAMPO meeting:

Here's an update on the Monday night CAMPO meeting:

According to Aulick the January 2005 TIP has "lapsed" and so CAMPO needs to approve a new TIP for the Plan 2 toll roads. This includes a bigger price tag up by $121 million. Most of this increase is at the intersection of US 183 and SH 71. In the original Plan 2, this interchange stayed as configured. The new TIP is calling for this interchange to be rebuilt.

The new TIP no longer includes US 183 A and SH 45 SE, presumably because these projects are already underway.

Here's the quick summary:

SH 45 South: Was $39M, now $51M because claims to now have non-tolled lanes added. Note the July 2004 ammendment has a "where feasible" clause for adding the non-tolled lanes. It's unclear if they are really serious about adding non-tolled lanes. Given the $12M cost bump-up and the environmental concerns, I could imagine TxDOT or CAMPO later deciding its "not feasible".

US 290 East: This was $297M in the toll feasibility analysis, but $400M in the original tip. The new TIP scales the cost back to $360M, in between the two earlier estimates. The $360M price tag, assume no revenue or toll increase, would put US 290 East in the "financially outlandish" category like Loop 360 since the revenue bond capacity would be just be just 10.5% of the total cost.

US 290 West: This goes up from $120M in the 2004-2005 TIPs to $139M. I'm not sure why. The original toll feasibility analysis had $178M.

SH 71 and US 183: This is confusing. SH 71 East goes up from $211M to $366M in the new TIP. There's talk of a "multilevel interchange at US 183". There's a $4M increase for SH 71 West ($64M to $68M). Costs on US 183 seem to have shifted around. Was $477M, now $466M but this appears to be because some of the interchange cost is shifted to SH 71 East.

Gonzalo Barrientos, CTRMA's Lowell H. Lebermann & Ray Brimble

Hi Sal,

I'm a grassroots activist in Riverside, CA who's deeply engaged in our local ABIA type issue. Please check me out on a search engine and you'll find lot's of stuff to indicate what I am. I've been working with our local press on our problem child, March Air Reserve Base.

We have many of the same type of issues and some of the same sorry characters along with our own local group of corrupt politicians and "businessmen." We too are a GlobalPort, which tells you right off that Ray Brimble is involved. March is a joint use airbase and GlobalPort
has landed DHL as its first aviation client. Do a search for "GlobalPort" "March JPA" and look for articles linked to pe.com. I think even you will be stunned. Look for flight path, Gumport report, cargo fees, and fuel issues. Riverside County is totally focused on GlobalPort. We have freeways and Metrolink lines going in that are needed for the base, but are presented as "community needs" issues. Like I said, many of the same issues.

It looks like Brimble is linked up to our local shady group of business leaders just as he is in Austin. To cut to the chase, what can you tell me about Brimble or any of your dealings with him that I can't get off the internet? Keep up the fight.

Thanks,
Art

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Hello Art,

Find Ray Brimble here with crooked Toller State Senator Gonzalo Barrientos:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:U1Q2k964Nw8J:www.texastollparty.com/looters_centralTexasLooters.php%3FviewLooter%3D18+%22Ray+Brimble%22+ctrma&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

Ray Brimble has been in Business with CTRMA Lowell H. Lebermann, Jr.:
http://www.ctrma.org/?menu_id=47

See how they work together:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=brimble+Lebermann+lynxs&btnG=Search

Thanks!
Sal
http://salcostello.blogspot.com/

John’s background

From: Imacsal@aol.com [mailto:Imacsal@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 3:54 PM
To: Campbell, Sally - Envision Central Texas
Subject: Re: News from Envision Central Texas


Hello Sally,

John Langmore is named as a "Transportation and Land Use Consultant" on the ECT website. Can you tell me what credentials are in the transportation field?

Thanks
Sal Costello
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Dear Sal:

Here is some information on John’s background-

Experience

Transportation and Land Use Consultant B John currently represents a number of public and private clients on transportation and land use issues. He has assisted in the financing of large roadway projects, is involved in the largest rail relocation in the State and was part of the team recently awarded the Trans Texas Corridor I-35 project. His clients include cities, counties, construction firms, engineering firms and governmental agencies.

Policy Director - Texas House Transportation Committee (78th Legislative Session)

John played a principal role in formulating and drafting one of the most comprehensive transportation bills passed in the state of Texas. House Bill 3588 completely altered the landscape for transportation projects by including the Governor’s Trans Texas Corridor plan, separate legislation for regional mobility authorities, comprehensive development agreements, pass-through tolls and a variety of new funding methods for transportation projects including funding for the Texas Mobility Fund. In working on H.B. 3588, John worked with virtually every member of the Legislature interested in transportation, the Governor’s office and all levels of the Texas Department of Transportation. John’s work on H.B. 3588 put him in an extraordinarily unique position of understanding the types of and means by which transportation projects will be built in Texas for decades.

Executive - Caterpillar Inc. (11 years)

Prior to returning to Texas, John served as an executive for the world’s largest manufacturer of earth-moving equipment and industrial engines. John worked in a number of capacities for Caterpillar including legal counsel for Solar Turbines, Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation and Caterpillar Asia. John also managed all of Caterpillar’s business in New South Wales, Australia, and the South Pacific before returning to the United States where he managed over $500 million worth of business in the southeast U.S. John spent half of his career with Caterpillar in overseas assignments including Singapore and Sydney. He worked on virtually every aspect of Caterpillar’s business and saw success in negotiating large transactions, increasing market share and advising Caterpillar dealers on all aspects of their business operations.

Attorney - Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (Washington D.C.)

John began his career working in the corporate and securities group of one of the nation’s preeminent law firms.

Other Experience and Accomplishments

John’s other accomplishments include being named to the boards of the Singapore American Chamber of Commerce and the Singapore Confederation of Industries and a co-chair of the Transportation and Land Use Committee of Envision Central Texas. Writing on numerous business and transportation issues, John has been published in a number of periodicals ranging from the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology to the Austin American Statesman. John was also named a member of the Littlefield Society and the Chancellor’s Council for the University of Texas System and a Keeton Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law. John takes great pride in also being involved in a number of charitable activities.

Education

John has a BBA (with honors) and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a JD from the University of Texas School of Law. John also spent a semester in Madrid, Spain, and studied law at Magdalen College, Oxford University.


Sally W. Campbell
Executive Director
Envision Central Texas

2512 S. IH 35, Suite 340
Austin, TX 78704
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