Why is tolling still part of the Ohio River Bridges Project?
One reason is the East End approach is too expensive.
The East End approach (the road to the East End Bridge) alone is $798 million. That is about $100,000 a foot! The East End Bridge, which crosses the Ohio River and Indiana’s approach combined are $558 million. The East End Bridge and Indiana’s approach are $240 million less than a 1.4 mile stretch of road on the Kentucky side?
How has that happened?
River Fields and the Kentucky Heritage Council
These two organizations have worked together from the beginning to keep an East End Bridge from becoming a reality.
These two have manipulated the East End approach part of this project using their influence to drive up project cost in effort to make it unaffordable.
River Fields has a lawsuit against the East End Bridge.
If we want a bridges project our community can afford, then we need to encourage serious reductions to the East End approach. This approach is nearly three times the amount of the bridge. This approach could be reduced over $500 million.
Contact your Governor, Senators, and Congressmen.
Thank You,
Paul Fetter
Co-founder
Organization For A Better Southern Indiana, Inc.
No2bridgetolls.org
(812) 283-5555 Ext 27
paul@clarkcountyaa.com
INDIANA
Governor Mitch Daniels
(317) 232-4567
http://www.in.gov/apps/options/email.aspx?url=http://www.in.gov/gov/
Senator Dan Coats
101 NW M L King Blvd
Evansville, IN 47708-1924
(812) 465-6313
Email: http://coats.senate.gov/contact/
Senator Dick Lugar
(812) 465-6313
Fort Wayne – (260) 422-1505
Email: http://lugar.senate.gov/contact/contactform.cfm
Rep. Ron Grooms
(800) 382-9487
Email: Senator.Grooms@iga.in.gov
Rep. Ed Clere
(317) 232-9648 or (800) 382-9841
Email: h72@in.gov
200 W. Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Rep. Steve Stemler
P: (317) 232-9600 or (800) 382-9842
Email: h71@in.gov
200 W. Washington St.,
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2786
Rep. Dan Coats
P: (317)554-0750
10 West Market Street
1650 Market Tower
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Email: http://coats.senate.gov/contact/
Rep. Todd Young
(812) 288-3999 F: 812-288-3873
279 Quartermaster
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
Email: https://toddyoung.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
INDIANA FHWA:
Bob Tally, (FHWA co chair)
Indiana Division
Email: robert.tally@dot.gov
P: (317) 226-7476, Fax: (317) 226-7341
KENTUCKY
Governor Steve Beshear
700 Capitol Avenue, Suite 100
Frankfort, Kentucky 4060
Main Line: (502) 564-2611
Fax: (502) 564-2517
Email: http://www.governor.ky.gov/contact/contact.htm
Senator Mitch McConnell
601 W. Broadway, Room 630
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 582-6304
Email: http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm
Rep. John Yarmuth
P: (502) 582-5129. F:502-582-5897
Romano Mazzoli Federal Building
600 Martin Luther King, Jr. Place, Suite 216
Louisville, KY 40202.
Email: http://yarmuth.house.gov/index.html
Rep. Rand Paul
P: (270) 782-8303
P: (202) 224-4343
http://paul.senate.gov/?p=contact
Washington, DC
208 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
Phone: 202-224-4343
KENTUCKY FHWA:
Jose Sepulveda, Division Administrator,
Kentucky Division Office, Federal Highway Administration:
330 West Broadway, Room 264
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
P: (502)223-6720 FAX: (502)223-6735
FEDERAL FHWA:
Ray Lahood – Cheryl J Walker/ Special Assistant
Federal Highway Administration
Office of the Federal Highway Administrator
(202) 366-6378