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Friday, December 20, 2013

TOLL SUPPORTERS VIEW SAKONNET BRIDGE USERS AS "REVENUE STREAM" TO BAIL OUT RITBA & RIDOT

Those with a self-interest in Sakonnet tolls continue to try to use the enormity of the infrastructure problem to disguise what's really going on (see link below). If the State faces a $100 million need, how will failing to create a Statewide maintenance process help? Will users of the Sakonnet Bridge be forced to pay for the rest of the State, as well as to keep the quasi-public RI Turnpike & Bridge Authority afloat? How will crushing the East Bay's economy help the State's finances? 

The only responsible course is to create a non-toll, Statewide maintenance process, and we the voters need to make clear it's also the only politically viable course.

http://www.heraldnews.com/news/x140442603/East-Bay-Bridge-Commission-maintains-that-toll-on-Sakonnet-River-Bridge-is-still-unfair

Brian Medeiros
Tiverton, RI
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