On tomorrow morning’s 9AM Board Consent Agenda is acquisition of ten acres on the Withlacoochee River in Hamilton County near Georgia. The toll roads (M-CORES) are on the Workshop agenda for after the board meeting, along with Water Quality Review, Poe Springs, and Rum Island Park. There’s nothing about Nestlé, but that doesn’t have to […]
Why would we expect the Florida M-CORES toll roads would be any different, since they were foisted on the public by a questionable process, just like the Texas SH 130 toll road? “The original estimates for this job were terribly overstated,” SH 130 Concession Company’s current CEO, Andy Bailey, told KXAN. “The original traffic projections […]
There’s no point in attending the toll roads webinars: instead ask Florida governor DeSantis to use the toll road funds for pandemic relief. FDOT didn’t listen to First Amendment Foundation: “All portions of the Sunshine Law continue to apply even during this horrible pandemic. No part of the Law has been suspended or modified as […]
Update 2022-01-13: No Build: FDOT toll road heading north towards the Suwannee Basin 2022-01-13. Routes with No Build sign Update 2020-04-25: Video: Sign up to recommend No Build; M-CORES toll road webinars. The Florida legislature in 2019 passed a bill for three new unneeded toll roads. while failing to pass a single environmental protection bill. […]
More toll roads could drain prosperity, and more driving means more climate change, said two speakers at the meeting in Madison County, Florida, February 11, 2020. You can send your opinion to FDOT.Listens@dot.state.fl.us. And Sierra Club has provided a convenient way for Floridians to tell FDOT No Build: https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/no-roads-to-ruin/take-action See also the No Roads to […]
Update 2019-05-28: See also Videos: toll road planning –E.D. Scott R. Koons & Ken Cornell @ NCFRPC 2019-05-23. Eight citizens from across the region spoke Thursday against the toll road boondoggle, at the North Central Florida Regional Planning Council meeting in Lake City, FL. Below are links to each WWALS video of each speaker, followed […]
In the Gainesville Sun, yesterday, May 22, 2019: Now that Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the toll road bill, SB 7068, Suwannee Riverkeeper — which was among the 90 organizations throughout Florida that asked him to veto it — continues to oppose that boondoggle and propose actual benefits to Florida’s economy and waters. Google map […]
Floridians, please call your Florida statehouse representative today. SB 7068 passed the Florida Senate already, so we all need to head off HB 7113 in the Florida House. For Immediate Release (PDF) April 25, 2019 Contact: David Cullen, cullenasea@aol.com, 941-323-2404 Diana Umpierre, diana.umpierre@sierraclub.org, 954-829-7632 John S. Quarterman, contact@suwanneeriverkeeper.org, 850-290-2350 75 ORGANIZATIONS, BUSINESSES URGE HOUSE TO […]
And no toll road coming right up to the Suwannee River from the south, not even if it’s called “Northern Turnpike Connector.” Yes, the day after the Madison, FL, Suncoast Connector meeting, there’s a meeting in Fanning Springs, FL, about the Northern Turnpike Connector. Why Fanning Springs? Because their “study areas” overlap, both including Levy […]
Update 2020-04-02: Videos, No Build: Speakers at M-CORES toll road meeting, Madison, FL 2020-02-11. Update 2020-02-05: The next day in Fanning Springs there’s another meeting, that one about the Northern Turnpike Connector, because that and Suncoast Connector’s “study areas” both include Levy and Citrus Counties. We don’t need a toll road running across the Suwannee […]
