Videos: Toll roads as prosperity drain and climate change, at M-CORES toll road meeting, Madison, FL 2020-02-11

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 Ruin Coalition facebook page.

A couple of speakers in Madison were for the toll roads, both claiming economic benefits. Madison County later terminated the consulting contract for one of them as a cost-cutting measure due to virus pandemic.

If one county can do that, the state of Florida can do that, as we previously suggested. See also Philip Beasley, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, April 12, 2020, Put federal dollars in hands of jobless.

Here are the WWALS videos of speakers in Madison:

Here’s a WWALS video playlist:


Toll roads as prosperity drain and climate change, at M-CORES toll road meeting, Madison, FL 2020-02-11
Videos by John S. Quarterman for WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS).

There are plenty more of these videos yet to be published.

To date, there are no more Suncoast Connector Task Force meetings scheduled until June. However, other Task Forces are distributing materials online and planning dialin meetings, so don’t be surprised if this Task Force does, too.

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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