Now why do we have a state government?

I don’t know enough about this to know if it is a good or bad idea and I’m not necessarily against toll roads.
Transportation Commission rules in favor of local tolls - San Antonio Business Journal:

The expansion of U.S. 281 and Loop 1604 will continue as toll projects, the Texas Transportation Commission has concluded. The determination [...]

This is planning?

Can you believe this?
MySA.com: Metro | State

Former city planning director Dave Pasley, a critic of what he says has been haphazard development of San Antonio’s suburbs, says a proposal to spend $12.6 million to improve Wurzbach Parkway intersections leaves him slack-jawed.
The cross-town parkway has been on the books for decades and isn’t finished. And the [...]