Committee Bios

Bill Barker, AICP

Bill Barker is an Urban Transportation Consultant, Researcher and Planner.

Bill has nearly 40 years of professional experience about equally divided between the public and private sectors.

He moved to San Antonio in 1997 to serve as the Director of Planning at VIA Metropolitan Transit. He went back into consulting in 2002.

He has also served as the Director of Transportation at the North Central Texas Council of Governments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. As such, he was in charge of the Metropolitan Planning Organization, or "MPO," for the Dallas-Fort Worth region.

In addition to being a consultant, Bill was also a transportation researcher at the U.S. Department of Transportation's Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA.

As a consultant, he has helped public and private clients in seven states, Canada and Mexico.

Bill has a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in urban affairs. He has been recognized as a Fellow by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, has been nationally certified as an urban planner, and is an active member of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Science, including having chaired the Committee on Transportation Programming, Planning and Systems Evaluation.

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Terri Hall

Ms. Hall grew up in the Silicon Valley where her leadership skills in student government and love for robust debate began to emerge into a pursuit of journalism. She earned a B.A. in English from UCLA where she was also drawn to political science, particularly how the media impacts politics. Ms. Hall's commitment to community service began in her youth that blossomed in college where she received the Chancellor's Service Award for outstanding commitment to philanthropy. Terri is still passionate about service. Ms. Hall makes it her mission to be active in her community. In Scottsdale, AZ, she served as community outreach coordinator, mobilizing her neighborhood in assisting needy families from dependence to independence through an innovative private program unmatched elsewhere in the country. She's not content unless she's working for the betterment of others.

From UCLA, she launched a brief career in marketing and public relations with the Marriott Corporation, explored the world of education when she taught high school English, and ultimately couldn't be tamed in a traditional work environment. Terri's an entrepreneur by nature and as she enjoys some time away from the workforce to raise her children, she and her husband have found their niche as business owners.

After a grueling year getting a successful in-home care business off the ground in CA, they chose Texas as their place to plant roots now owning and operating a Design & Creative Services business. Terri is a mother to five young children whom she educates at home. When she saw the door open to unlimited, new taxation without accountability to voters through the statewide toll mandate, Ms. Hall was pressed into service once again and she now serves as the San Antonio Director of what's been dubbed a taxpayer revolt, the Texas Toll Party, to prevent the double taxation of our freeways.

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Colonel Robert W. (Bob) Throckmorton

Bob Throckmorton is the Director of Operations for the San Antonio Texas Toll Party. He is a retired Air Force Colonel and pilot who resides in northern Bexar County. Following his twenty-eight years of active military service, he became the Industrial Relations Director for EG&G Automotive Research, Inc., headquartered in San Antonio. Upon graduation from the University of Colorado, he enlisted in the US Air Force and was accepted into the Aviation Cadet training program. During his 28-year military career, which spanned both the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, he held positions of squadron, group and wing commander and also as commander of the Air Force School of Applied Cryptologic Sciences (USAFSACS), a joint military service technical training facility. As a senior military officer, he held a key staff position at the National Security Agency (NSA) at Ft Meade, MD.

Bob has been a member of the San Antonio/Bexar County Homeowner-Taxpayer Association (HTA) for over a decade, and has served on its Board of Directors. He is deeply concerned and opposed to excessive government taxation and directs his committee's efforts toward informing area citizens about the toll road scheme advocated for this area. As Ops Chief, he schedules and directs local volunteers, who are rapidly growing in number, in conducting flyer "blitzes" - the dissemination of information bulletins about toll roads, their projected costs and effects, to citizens "on the streets"(vehicle operators) and at affected business sites. He commits to be active in the Toll Party effort until there's total public awareness of the planned 50-year double-taxed roadway system being promoted for Bexar and San Antonio. He maintains that citizens have the right and obligation to demand accountability and to vote on programs being unnecessarily forced upon the community by local governments and politicians.

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