Texans United for Reform and Freedom
... Texas landowners face forcibly losing their land to developers for private gain through eminent domain and other governmental powers?
... Texas leads the nation in road debt? Total road debt, including outstanding toll road debt and principal and interest tops $100 billion!
... most local governments in Texas are implementing a ‘road diet’ aimed at restricting auto travel just like California? Both the federal government and local governments now mandate dedicated bike lanes and pedestrian facilities on highway projects.
... Texas landowners face forcibly losing their land to developers for private gain through eminent domain and other governmental powers?
The Right to Transporation of Choice
Defending Our Property Rights and Freedom to Travel
Defending citizens’ concerns about toll roads & eminent domain abuse
What is TURF?
Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom (TURF) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public on our government’s new shift to tolling using controversial financing methods called public-private partnerships (called Comprehensive Development Agreements or CDAs in Texas), the tolling of existing corridors, and the eminent domain abuse inherent in these plans (confiscating private land to give to a private company for commercial gain).
TURF also educated the public about the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC), the first of the planned NAFTA Superhighways, and eventually helped pass a complete repeal of the TTC from state statute in 2011. TURF also helped secure a moratorium & sunset of controversial public private partnership road contracts in 2007 and was also the first grassroots group to oppose the use of stimulus money for toll roads in 2009, which garnered national coverage by the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Fox News.
Movies that Matter
Terri Hall, Founder
