Texas News If Not Tolls or Taxes, What Then? Texans Grapple with Funding Highways KWBU | By Texas Standard Published November 20, 2017 at 11:09 AM CST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:46 Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon/KUT In Austin, some portions of the MoPac Expressway are being readied for toll traffic. No one likes traffic, but Texans can’t agree how to pay for road improvements that could ease it.