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Toll Road Proposal * Canada - Has Supporters and Detractors
Saint John,NB,CAN -Ellsworth American (Ellsworth,ME,USA), by Tom Walsh -June 05, 2008: -- The proposal to build a privately owned, $1 billion toll road through Maine has its supporters and its critics on both sides of the Canadian border... Ivan Court, who last week was sworn in as the new mayor of Saint John, is clearly an advocate of construction of a 220-mile, east-west toll road through the wilderness of north-central Maine... Court said, "...We’re not at the end of the trail; we’re in the heart of probably the seventh largest trade corridor in the world.” ... Among the project’s most vocal Canadian critics is Ron Oldfield, president of the Saint John District Labor Council. That group’s 6,000 members include long-haul truck drivers who belong to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters... “Fast-tracking trucks through the border is all about benefiting big business at the cost of deteriorating the roads on this side of the border,” Oldfield said... (Preliminary Permitting, Engineering, Budgeting August 2008 - August 2010)Labels: toll roads debate
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