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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Tony Hartzel
Feb. 25--AUSTIN -- A proposal to rebuild and operate long stretches of State Highway 121 in Denton and Collin counties as a toll road merits further study, the Texas Transportation Commission decided Thursday.
Within the last month, the Swedish company Skanska BOT submitted an unsolicited bid to develop Highway 121 from the Business 121 split around Coppell to Central Expressway in McKinney. Skanska spent months evaluating the Highway 121 project and talking to elected officials before submitting the proposal, said Phil Armstrong, director of the company's toll transportation development division.
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