Tag Archives: Say No To Bridge Tolls

Anti-toll group demands Bridges Authority disclose conflicts of interest

December 9, 2010 – 10:53 am

Before the Louisville-Southern Indiana Bridges Authority votes on a financial plan to pay for the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project, an anti-tolling organization is calling for its members to reveal any potential conflicts of interest. “The public needs to know if ‘Tolling’ Authority members or their families have ties to Wall Street banks or [...]

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Anti-toll group sends petition to U.S. Dept. of Transportation

November 23, 2010 – 12:23 pm

The grassroots Say No To Bridge Tolls  (SNTBT) group has gathered more than 10,000 signatures in an effort to petition the federal government to stop — please god, stop — the prospect of using tolls to pay for the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project. From a press release disseminated yesterday: On Monday, November 22, [...]

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One Southern Indiana?

October 19, 2010 – 4:47 pm

Last night, the city council of Jeffersonville, In., became the latest Southern Indiana community to pass a resolution prohibiting the tolling of existing infrastructure as a means to pay for the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project. From a press release, courtesy of Say No to Bridge Tolls: Thanks to the lobbying efforts of several [...]

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Bridges Authority: No comments, folks

October 6, 2010 – 3:13 pm

Funny thing about tomorrow night’s meeting of the bi-state Bridges Authority: There will be no public comment section to accommodate the anticipated record turnout of average citizens and anti-toll protesters. One would think that, since this meeting will be the first to be held at night when non-oligarchs are off of work and free to [...]

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Bridges Authority meeting tomorrow

October 6, 2010 – 12:04 pm

“There is such a thing as too big,” writes Steve Shaw about the Ohio River Bridges Project, “especially when you’re paying by the inch. And particularly when the product is ugly and obsolete, not to mention slow, noisy and hazardous to erect.” Shaw’s cover story on the unwieldy, unpopular and uncompromising multi-billion dollar public works [...]

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Anti-toll advocate sports Fischer sticker

September 2, 2010 – 3:45 pm

Given Greg Fischer’s slippery position on the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project, the project’s opponents have heaped criticism on the Democratic nominee for mayor. That’s exactly why we were so perplexed to see prominent anti-tolling organizer Shawn Reilly apparently supporting the Louisville businessman. At a recent Democratic rally, Reilly, co-founder of the “Say NO [...]

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Ward-Pugh sponsors anti-toll resolution

September 2, 2010 – 2:00 pm

Responding to the growing anxiety over tolling, a handful of Louisville Metro Council members led by Councilwoman Tina Ward-Pugh, D-9, have drafted a resolution opposing fees on the city’s existing bridges and roads as a means to pay  for the $4.1 billion Ohio River Bridges Project. The measure making the rounds through City Hall calls [...]

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No Tolls Group Petitions to De-list Drumanard

June 17, 2010 – 4:21 pm

Members of the Facebook group Say No To Bridge Tolls have submitted a petition to the Kentucky Heritage Council in an effort to de-list the Drumanard Estate from the National Register of Historic Places, citing multiple inconsistencies with the East End Bridge-blocking estate’s 1988 boundary-increase application packet, and calling for an audit of the decision-making [...]

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