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*Montgomery Intercounty Connector Coalition: Facts Against the ICC
*Council Rejects Studying the ICC Again
Lew Helm's Commentary on the TPR Task Force
Lew Helm's Response to the Gazette
Letter From Ewing to Porcari, Apr 9, 2001
Legislators' Position on the ICC
Environmental
Scorecard
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Maryland League
of Conservation Voters
Map of Legislative Districts of Montgomery County
The following letters were selected from over 2,300 letters sent to officials and copied to MICC:
(Add to our collection --- keep the letters and E-mails coming.)
Dear Governor Glendening:
Certainly some powerful and wealthy persons and groups have urged and will urge you to support the ICC. ... To brutalize Maryland land and the environment at a cost of $1 billion, solve no transportation problems and add enormously to sprawl and pollution---for no purpose other than greed---is not only foolish but immoral. ... We cannot continue to pave over everything precious in the interest of short-term profit and still leave our children a Maryland to be proud of. ... Remember, you speak for Maryland and for all those who come after you.
Sincerely,
Barbara B. Young
Greenbelt, MD
MANY TIMES OVER
According to the Maryland State Highway Administration, since 1960 we've built 29,265 miles of new roads in Maryland. These are state, state toll, county and municipal roads and 5,217 of those miles are in Montgomery and Prince Georges' counties. This doesn't count thousands of miles of roads our County Council has widened. And we're still having traffic jams.
I wonder if likely voters feel better off knowing the county has probably built the equivalent of several ICCs in terms of new and widened roads since the second ICC debate began? Are they getting to their destinations faster, or do they still feel as frustrated as a year ago, five years ago? When will people wake up and build more public transportation?
