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mitch s myths the road to hell is paved with pr indy bypass toll road the latest proposal without a need illiana toll road will northern indiana have any free roads left new terrain i 69 throwing a billion dollars out the window indiana toll road raw deal with lessons for other toll road proposals links no illiana expressway no illiana toll road shelby county community preservation group majormoves carr countus hoosier environmental council common sense i 69 environmental law and policy c enter turf truth be tolled texas toll party san antonio toll party stop smartport save our turnpikes owner operator independent drivers association no tolls uk youtube pbs texas tollroads part 1 pbs texas tollroads part 2 strayhorn speaks specific information cistms study sb 1 both toll roads sb 14 rail privatization sb 239 indy bypass sb 291 illiana sb 468 corridors and eminent domain hb 1209 gives gov full privatization authority quot the highwaymen quot by daniel schulman amp james ridgeway for mother jones an expose about the sale of the in toll road by mitch daniels this is a must read new terrain i 69 click on map for enlarged view governor mitch daniels is the third governor to press for new terrain i 69 route 3c despite the exorbitant price tag the destruction of family farms and environmental damage it will unnecessarily cause and the overwhelming public opposition to it indot i 69 cost estimate soars 89 click for more information volumes of detailed information are available through the links on the right here we will try to keep to some of the highlights of the history impact financing and public backlash on new terrain i 69 these experiences tie directly into the proposed indy bypass toll road the proposed illiana toll road and the sale of the indiana toll road they also illustrate the methods used by this governor and indot to get what they want by passing out erroneous and incomplete information to the public and the legislature a boondoggle by any other name lets face it we are talking about a route that costs 1 billion more than the common sense route i 70 us 41 just to save 15 minutes driving between indianapolis and evansville no wonder it received tom brokaw s award as a fleecing of america it was also proclaimed a road to ruin the 50 most wasteful roads in america by taxpayers for common sense a non partisan budget watchdog the route is so overpriced that governor mitch daniels declared it would be a toll road or no road when his pet contractors bernardin amp lochmeuller delivered an amendment to the tier i feis caution big pdf file may take a while to load into your browser basically a report see glossary that utterly failed to show this route could survive financially as a toll road daniels proposed the money come from a brand new toll road the indy bypass toll road after thousands of citizens declared their opposition to the indy bypass toll road plan daniels dropped the proposal so at this point not counting increases in the cost of materials and labor that have occurred in the last few years we have the following financing needs for the boondoggle route in december 2003 indot estimated the cost of the 142 mile new terrain i 69 would be 1 8 billion dollars after selling the indiana toll road last year daniels declared 700 million of the money is earmarked for building i 69 new indot cost estimate soars 89 with the tier 1 study completed the proposed route was split into 6 sections and each section will be the subject of a separate tier 2 study the first of these tier 2 studies is now being circulated in its draft form i 69 evansville to indianapolis tier 2 draft environmental impact statement section 1 evansville to oakland city december 2006 section 1 is a 13 mile stretch which indot estimated in 2003 would cost 122 million to build this new tier 2 study now estimates the cost to be 230 million a whopping 89 increase indot is using a cost formula updated with recent comparative project costs and will apply this new formula to all sections of the proposed i 69 project this brings the cost of i 69 from evansville to indianapolis 3 35 billion adding in a conservatively updated cost for the extension from evansville to kentucky of 595 million and you get 3 9 billion this is nothing less than a super sized boondoggle now and it will cost more than the state received for selling the indiana toll road in 2006 click here to see the fact sheet complied by citizens for appropriate rural roads hoosier environmental council and the environmental law and policy center and the per section estimated costs for i 69 these new cost projections were used to re examine the cost benefits that indot claimed would be derived from construction of new terrain i 69 in 2003 indot claimed a slightly positive benefit to cost ratio the new data reveals that the highway now will cost over a billion dollars more to construct than it can ever return in economic development quot the growing price tag for new terrain i 69 means that deserving road projects in other parts of the state would be at risk of losing funding if this costly and environmentally destructive project goes forward quot says tom tokarski of carr and tim maloney of the hoosier environmental council suggests that quot the best way to minimize costs and maximize economic and environmental benefits is to use the common sense solution of us 41 i 70 quot path of destruction the route for new terrain i 69 being pushed by governor daniels will be especially destructive it would wipe out 2800 more acres of farmland 1000 more acres of forest 90 more acres of wetlands and over 3800 more acres of right of way than the common sense i 70 us 41 route it would wipe out 61 million in perry township assessed value marion county resulting in a loss of at least 1 3 million in tax revenues per year fuzzy math the new terrain i 69 route would cost 2 7 million per year more in maintenance costs than the common sense route using indot s own numbers the cost per job created would be 359 375 every independent cost benefit analysis on i 69 since 1990 shows a negative return on investment the latest study by smart mobility shows a return of 66 cents for every dollar invested the common sense route passes through the poorest counties in indiana the new terrain route will impose further economic hardship on them studies upon studies the environmental impact study for i 69 was broken up into two parts tier i examined the performance of a number of routes against key goals in order to select a preferred route that preferred route is the new terrain i 69 route we have been discussing here tier ii studies were divided into 6 sections and each section is currently being studied for exact road position closer examination of the environmental social and economic impacts section i now has a draft tier 2 eis environmental impact statement available for public comment public comments have always been overwhelmingly opposed to this route for i 69 20 467 of 21 873 citizen opinions submitted to indot with a route preference supported the common sense route i 70 us 41 and opposed new terrain i 69 township city and town governments up and down the preferred route have taken official positions opposing the new terrain route looking forward during last year s legislative session mitch daniels was given permission to toll and privatize the new terrain i 69 route between martinsville and evansville he was barred from doing so between martinsville and indy he was also barred from building i 69 through perry township marion county senator tom wyss r fort wayne introduced a bill sb 1 to switch the governor s authorization to toll and privatize new terrain i 69 onto his proposed indy bypass toll road and the illiana toll road this bill passed out of the senate and now awaits hearing in the transportation committee of the house field hearings in three counties brought out thousands of citizens opposed to the toll road on march 24 2007 governor 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