Article: Fort Bend County, Texas, To Add Toll Roads into Its Transportation Mix.

By Eric Hanson, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 2--RICHMOND, Texas--Beginning early next year, Fort Bend County will join its neighbor Harris County in the toll road business when construction begins on a five-mile thoroughfare.

The four-lane Fort Bend Parkway Toll Road will connect the Sam Houston Tollway (Beltway 8) with Texas 6 and should aid commuters, ease traffic problems and stimulate economic development in the eastern part of the county, local officials said.

And, construction will begin in 2004 on a second toll project that will link the Grand Parkway in the Cinco Ranch-Katy area with Harris County's ...

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