Comments on: Greg Fischer On Bridge Tolling

By: CT

CT — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:47:11 +0000

Greg Fisher and his River Fields freinds want a stalemate. By supporting the weighted down project, while rejecting tolls you get no bridges, and no East End Bridge is what Fisher and RFields want.

By: Steve Magruder

Steve Magruder — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:22:45 +0000

Stu, I’ve been thinking the exact same thing.

Our message back to them should probably be “One dollar is too much to pay for tolls on bridges we’ve already paid for!”

Eclipse their future position.

By: Stunoland

Stunoland — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:56:07 +0000

It is clear to me that the Bridges Authority is floating the $3 # so that when the real # comes around $1.50 it does not sound as bad in comparison. It is a classic strategy to prepare people for bad news by telling them the worst case scenario. No doubt their new PR firm told them to take this strategy. The real problem is that we are being asked to pay tolls for something (the current downtown ORBP) that will destroy Louisville’s ability to compete in the 21st century & beyond.

By: Steve Magruder

Steve Magruder — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:30:51 +0000

EMR, you may want to ask Fischer’s puppeteers that question.

By: East Market Resident

East Market Resident — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:18:44 +0000

We need the east end bridge but do not need the downtown bridge. A second bridge, if we need one, should go downstream of the Sherman Minton.

Why is Fischer so out of touch with the needs of Louisville and its citizens?

By: Mark H (Not Hebert)

Mark H (Not Hebert) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:07:29 +0000

Absolutely Bruce. The reason they want to have the high tolls is so they can sell the rights off to international investors, just like Mitch Daniels did in Indiana and get a big influx of immediate cash.

The new scam is to sell off structured payments to basically liquidate future administrations of structured income.

By: Bruce Maples

Bruce Maples — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:53:01 +0000

Wonder what UPS thinks of double-digit tolls for each of its trucks?

By: chico

chico — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:15:33 +0000

No way the Tolls are a good idea!…..Good God!….$6.00 to go to Indiana and back?…NO WAY……

By: Steve Magruder

Steve Magruder — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:22:14 +0000

But look at this quote from A KENTUCKY NEWSPAPER:

“The three entities estimate that a mix of traditional federal financing, such as gasoline tax, and special federal funds, such as an upcoming round of stimulus grants, would pay for the other half.”

Ummm, well, if the project is reduced to take out the tunnel and most of the downtown stuff, tolls aren’t needed. They just proved the point of many tolling and other ORBP critics in the area.