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LOCAL RESIDENTS SOUND
OFF ON A CONTROVERSIAL
THE PLAN TO CHARGE
BRIDGE HAS ALREADY
WEEK...
IS ADDING THEIR VOICE TO
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RESIDENTS IN THE AREA
BRIDGE ARE WORRIED
ABOUT WHAT TOLLS ON
THE SAKONNET COULD
EYEWITNESS NEWS
NEILSEN IS LIVE IN THE
NEWSROOM WITH MORE.
I TALKED WITH RESIDENTS
PERSON I TALKED TO IS
IMPACT OF TOLLING A
NEARBY BRIDGE.
ITS THE HOT BUTTON ISSUE IN
TOLLS BEING ADDED TO THE
53:28
the traffic is all ready backed
up
way.
IF TOLLS ARE ADDED.. THOSE IN
MILES.
THE FEAR IS... MORE PEOPLE
BRIDGE TO AVOID THE TOLLS...
52:24
im sure pople would take short
RESIDENTS WE TALKED TO
SEEMED UNCONVINCED MORE
BOOST IN BRISTOL
48:41
i get in my car at point a ive
got to
be at point b but ive got to get
through bristol... that does not
IN THE SPRING, THE GENERAL
TOLLS AFTER THEY PASSED
LEGISLATION TRANSFERRING
THE SAKONNET RIVER BRIDGE
TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE
AUTHORITY.
michael lewis, ri dot director
"these structures need to be
expensive structures and if we
go
another generation and we don't
were in a position of having to
AT A MONDAY NIGHT RIDOT
PRESENTATION... AN
PEOPLE STRONGLY AGAINST
chance."
53:46
highway..
if people are going to be trying
to
avoid the toll theyre definitely
going to be going through town.
ANOTHER CHANCE
TONIGHT TO HEAR ABOUT
PROPOSAL AT 7 P-M IN
TIVERTON HIGH SCHOOL.
WE'LL BE THERE, AND
TONIGHT ON EYEWITNESS
STEVE NIELSEN...
EYEWITNESS NEWS.
(J-MO)
WE'RE WORKING THE
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS