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Texas highways like I-35 cost billions of dollars in state and federal tax revenue to build and maintain. Freeways also impose costs on people, society and the environment that not reimbursed by the government.
Julius Shieh
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KUT News
Highways cost billions of dollars in state and federal tax revenue to build and maintain. Then there are the hidden costs: polluted air, traffic congestion and increased greenhouse gas emissions.