Last Chance To Stop I-69!
Environmentally disasterous new
interstate threatens bats, birds, woods and wildlife refuges
while chopping up southern Indiana for land developers. The
Indiana Dept. of Transportation is illegally avoiding flood
plain construction laws to rush the highway to construction
before environmenta and flood regulations are satisfied and
easements obtained from property owners. And the so-called "preferred"
route through the middle of southern Indiana is the most costly
route, at an estimated $3 billion. There is a less expensive
path for the interstate already there: I-70 to U.S. 41. Using
the existing route for the path of I-69 would save taxpayers
over a billion dollars and uncountable savings in environmental
destruction.
I-69 will connect Mexico City with Detroit
and Windsor, Ont., thus providing the infamous drug and people
smuggling crime gangs south of the border with a direct route
through the heart of the nation. The new highway will make Indiana
and other states along the way easily accessible to the "coyotes"
(people smugglers) and the drug cartels. Do you want decapitated
bodies and severed heads in the town square in Bloomington?
We might as well roll out the welcome mat to the most violent
criminal gangs in North America when we open I-69.
Stop I-69. It isn't too late!
Take Action:
Indiana DNR - Tell it to deny floodway permits for I-69 bridges
over the Patoka River, East Fork White River and Prairie Creek.
Since the DNR is directly controlled by Our Man Mitch's appointees,
it isn't likely that Director Carter will want to lose his job
by opposing his boss. Our Man Mitch wants the highway, much
as he wanted the millions Indianapolis Power & Light retirees
had set aside. He got what he wanted in that case, and it seems
likely that he willl get away with opening Indiana to the Mexican
cartels.
Email: rcarter@dnr.in.gov
Federal Highway Administration - Ask it to force INDOT to change
the I-69 route to the already existing I-70-U.S. 41 route.
Email: execsecretariat.fhwa@fhwa.dot.gov
State legislators - Ask them to tell the
Governor to choose the U.S. 41/I-70 route for I-69. Since only
about 25 percetn of the $3 billion is available, the Legislature
must provide the cash. Where is that going to come from? You
and me.
Use this internet address to find your representatives:
http://www.in.gov/cgi-bin/legislative/contact/contact.pl
