Rick Perry said that the state needs to find a way to "expand our ability to raise some dollars" for transportation infrastructure around the state, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Perry stated that "...we do not have the dollars that we need to build all the transportation infrastructure needs that we have."

Perry also said it is important that citizens and elected officials around the state realize that "...we're going to have to expand our ability to raise some dollars to build the roads so that you don't have the strangulation in places along the 1-35 corridor."