In today's Hinton News, Doug Tolbert, Coordinator of the New River Parkway Authority is begging for letters IN support of the New River Parkway! This Parkway is a road now that can only stretch 10 miles, as the rest has been put on hold "indefinitely", yet one that would strip private land owners of all of our rights, cost all tax payers untold millions in land acquisitions and construction/maintenance fees! This roadway is truly a road to no where!
He is quoted as saying that due too a "few people that oppose" this parkway, that the area stands to loose federal funds! Who cares if it strips landowners and tax payers of their hard earned rights and monies!
We find it amazing and wonderful that he is making these pleas in our local paper on the account of a "few"! How wonderful that a "few" can move mountains!
Please contact the following representative of the West Virginia Department of Highways requesting a "No-Build Alternative"!
Director James E. Sothen Phone: 304-558-2830 Fax: 304-558-0605 Email: jsothen@dot.state.wv.us
You may also wish to send cc to Robert C. Byrd: senator_byrd.senate.gov to Jay Rockefeller senator@rockefeller.senate.gov and to Nick Joe Rahall NRAHALL@mail.house.gov
You all have a say in this proposed project because it will be 80% federally funded! Your tax dollars at work to steal homes and heritages form American families.
You may also wish to send letters to the editor of the Hinton News: HINTON1000@aol.com
The land you save may well be your own!
Most of us don't "own land"...quit paying your property taxes for a while and you will see who REALLY "owns" your land. There was a recent thread speculating that there are now more freedoms to be found in the former Soviet Union nowadays than in America...I'm beginning to believe it.
