The Price of Toll Road Information: A Non-Disclosure Agreement

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The secrecy surrounding the early phases of a $184 billion, 4,000-mile network of Texas toll roads, rail lines and utility lines is giving many public officials second thoughts. The state’s attorney general has ruled that development and financial details of a March toll road contract must be disclosed and some San Antonio officials are balking at having to sign non-disclosure agreements to review and have any input on an area toll road proposal costing $1.3 billion. “This whole deal scares the hell out of me,” said one. (6/13/05)