ORBP: Comment process and upcoming public meetings.

(submitted)

No2bridgetoll Supporters:

Federal Highways and the Ohio River Bridges Project Team will be taking comments on the SDEIS. (The reduced two bridge solution.)

All comments are part of the environmental process. Take part in process and address your tolling concerns, and alternative ideas.

Residents that work on either side of the river will have to pay tolls each way daily. This is unfair because drivers using the new Kennedy Interchange will not pay tolls. This portion of the project represents a third of the projects total cost. Only users of the bridges paying tolls will be unfair and a direct cause of regional division.

• Southern Indiana residents will pay a highly disproportional amount of tolls.

• All of our affected local governing bodies have passed resolutions that oppose tolling our existing transportation routes because they know it will be bad for our community!

• Southern Indiana businesses will pay a highly disproportionate amount of tolls.

• Southern Indiana retail and tourism businesses will be negatively affected by tolling.

The recent closing of the Sherman Minton Bridge is an example of how this will happen. Reduction in Kentucky consumers has resulted in significant losses for Southern Indiana businesses. When challenged with the inconvenience of the bridge closure, Kentucky consumers chose not to shop Southern Indiana. Tolling I-65 will create a worse scenario than this because it requires participation in a process and money. In time this combination wil eliminate Kentucky consumerism in Southern Indiana.

Submit written comment using below link:

https://kyinbridges.wufoo.com/forms/z7x3k1/

Or to:
John Sacksteder
Community Transportation Solutions
305 North Hurstbourne Parkway, Suite 100
Louisville, KY 40222
Email: jsacksteder@ctsgec.com
(502) 394-3847

Attend these public meetings:

December 19, 2011
4:00-8:00 p.m.
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
Brown & Williamson Club
2800 S. Floyd St., Gate 6
Louisville, KY

December 20, 2011
4:00-8:00 p.m.
Holiday Inn Lakeview
505 Marriott Drive
Clarksville, IN

Thank You,

Paul Fetter
Co-founder
Organization For A Better Southern Indiana, Inc.
No2bridgetolls.org
(812) 283-5555 Ext 27
paul(at)clarkcountyaa(dot)com