Rhode Island Question 1 and 2
October 29, 2008 by cshells58
Filed under Election 2008, environment science, politics
Can anyone out there help me on this one? I cannot get much information, at all.
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Question 1 and 2: Transportation and Open Spaces Bonds
Question 1:
– Authorize the Rhode Island state government to borrow $87,215,000.
– With the money, provide funds to the Department of Transportation to match available federal funds and to provide direct funding for improvements to the State’s highways, roads and bridges.
– Match available federal funds and to provide direct funding for commuter rail.
– Purchase new buses and/or rehabilitate existing buses in the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority’s bus fleet.
Question 2:
– Authorize the Rhode Island state government to borrow $2,500,000.
– With the money, provide funds to “purchase, or otherwise permanently protect through the purchase of title to, development rights, conservation easements and public recreation easements, greenways and other open space, recreation lands, agriculture lands, forested lands and state parks.”
My recommendation: ???
I’m sorry but I just don’t want to make a recommendation without more information. I cannot find anything about who supports or opposes this, what the true costs are, how it will be implemented, etc., etc.
Unless someone out there has some more information….? please.
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paul on Wed, 29th Oct 2008 8:34 pm
now i know as much as you and not more than that, maybe even less. sorry.
but i can tell you this i’m definitely voting NO.
what do we need to borrow more money for woods for. and parks and existing playgrounds, let the people in the neighborhoods do that, or their town employees. if we want to preserve the farm lands here, and i do, vote government to lift all the property owners taxes to keep the land. maybe the owners will become innovative and generous in some way to help contribute to compete with these money makeing food conglomerates.