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Attachment to Mr. Cairn's Message Regarding Termination for Convenience of the P3 Contract for the Midtown Tunnel/Downtown Tunnel/MLK Extension Project Meagan Lee Carrsville VA 23315 United States 3/6/2012 I cannot afford to pay this toll everyday going back and forth to work. Salvatore Gulisano Chesapeake VA 23322 United States 3/6/2012 Raise Gas Tax not Tolls Brian Murden Va. Beach VA 23451 United States On the already congested roads, you are proposing to grid lock them even more. Add a penny more tax to the gas 3/6/2012 price at the pump. Remember Forrest Gump. "Stupid is as stupid does" Friends, you can't fix stupid. Brenda Alderson Colonial Heights VA 23834 United States 3/6/2012 Seems unfair, since this is the only way in or out for people to get to work. Erika Porter Portsmouth VA 23704 United States It is already congested going through the tunnel to and from work five days a week and I just work off of Berkley Avenue in Norfolk. Gas prices are extremely high and the economy is still not where it should be and it is going to put some of us that are already struggling to keep gas in our cars to get to work in even more in debt. This is not a good 3/6/2012 move for the tunnels at all. Lolita Boykin Chesapeake VA 23320 United States Too many people have to use tunnel with no option just to make it to work. Jobs without raises or the economy will not give us more money to pay for these tolls that would have to be used atleast 2x per day. This will drive people to 3/6/2012 be poor and cause more crime. Get the money from the already high gas prices. Sylvia Evans Suffolk VA 23434 United States 3/6/2012 Work in Norfolk after Hospital merge William Butler Norfolk VA 23507 United States The tolls will unfairly hurt the people of Portsmouth. They are wasteful, also. It would be more fficient and more fair to raise the gas tax a few cents. The folks who support the tolls are really being quite selfish. We are one large 3/6/2012 metropolitan area and we need to become MORE united. Jane Webster Norfolk VA 23505 United States 3/6/2012 should be a gasoline tax not tolls CHARLES BEERS NORFOLK VA 23505 United States 3/6/2012 This is a general gas tax issue, raise the gas tax to fund these kinds of infracture inprovements across the state Samuel Webster Norfolk VA 23505 United States 3/6/2012 . Brenda Hux Corapeake NC 27926 United States I go through this area all the time for business, pleasure, etc. With the high gas prices this just adds another financial 3/6/2012 burden to families already suffering in this economy Michael Phillips Norfolk VA 23509 United States The cost of the tunnels, like the roads, sewers, schools, and all other forms of infrastructure should be a shared burden by all taxpayers. The logic that says that people who don't use the tunnels shouldn't have to pay for them is nonsense. By that logic, since I do not have children why should i pay taxes that pay for schools. This seems to be a thinly veiled means of creating an additional revenue stream that directly and very negatively impacts a select group 3/6/2012 of commuters. Kara Mitchell Portsmouth VA 23701 United States I am signing this petition because I think the idea is obserd! My tax dollars should have already more than paid for 3/6/2012 the roads, bridges, and tunnels. Brooks Gust Windsor VA 23487 United States 3/6/2012 I work in Norfolk and use the Tunnels everyday. I cannot afford another un‐neccesary tax. Lee Churchill Norfolk VA 23507 United States I work in newport news and live in norfolk. I love the ability to traverse such varied cities so close together, and 3/6/2012 would ultimately lose this privilege if forced to navigate toll after toll. Cynthia Odom Chesapeake VA 23321 United States 3/6/2012 Can't afford the toll. Angela Walker Suffolk VA 23435 United States How they expect the average day, hard working individual to survive with gas prices on rise along with everything 3/6/2012 else. A $1,000 + to comute a year is something I wonder where they expect us all to pull it out of. Utterly opposed to this type of privatization ‐ it's always a disaster and the money invariably gets used to line the Dave Sadler Southsea PO5 3JG United Kingdom 3/6/2012 pockets of greedy administrators... Catherine Green Portsmouth VA 23701 United States 3/6/2012 We need to support our businesses, not destroy them with such outrageous tolls. Barbara Schafer Portsmouth VA 23703 United States Unfairly targeting Portsmouth. Lack of transparency before final decision was published. It's a tax, whether it's 3/6/2012 called a toll or not. I would rather pay a higher gas tax or sales tax tha this. Don Parnell Va. Beach VA 23451 United States I am very concerned over the impact of theset tolls on travel times between the southside and the Peninsula. I believe tolls will adversely impact our fragile economy my making it more difficult for consumers to travel among the various cities in this area. If absolutely necessary, I would prefer a gas tax which would raise the needed money for 3/6/2012 improvements without the adverse effects of these tolls. Page 88 of 102
Attachment to Mr. Cairn's Message Regarding Termination for Convenience of the P3 Contract for the Midtown Tunnel/Downtown Tunnel/MLK Extension Project Debra Campbell Virginia Beach VA 23454 United States This action will devastate the local economies in all the HR cities and the tourist industry in VA Beach. It will also 3/6/2012 isolate a lot of people to their city because they will not be able to afford the tolls to travel beyond their borders. Robbin Love Portsmouth VA 23707 United States I live in Portsmouth and work in Norfolk at Old Dominion University. I haven't received a raise or cost of living adjustment in five years, which is tantamount to a pay decrease, as prices for everything from food to insurance to gas to clothes continually rise. Tolls to travel through the tunnels will create a tremendous burden for me and my family ‐ an unfair burden given the importance of Portsmouth and the two tunnels to the entire Commonwealth of 3/6/2012 Virginia's economy. Marie Jensen Norfolk VA 23508 United States Live in Norfolk, work in Portsmouth. Portsmouth is isolated enough as it is. The impact on businesses and real estate will be crippling. Services to Portsmouth (repair, landscaping, anything delivered) will have additional charges 3/6/2012 because of tolls. The list goes on. Elizabeth Ciccone Colchester CT 6415 United States I am signing this because this is where I was raised, my family lives Portsmouth and Suffolk. It's absolutely way too much government involvment regarding milking citizens of their money. CUT PROGRAMS! IT'S NOT A REVENUE PROBLEM, IT'S A SPENDING PROBLEM. Citizens are not entitled to a government check unless they overpaid in taxes 3/6/2012 and they file at the end of the year! Can't you get this through your thick heads? Tina Proya Virginia Beach VA 23456 United States 3/6/2012 i use the tunnels every day to get to work I don't think it is fare to have to pay $3.68 a day to go to work Ryan Gibson Chesapeake VA 23321 United States Its complete BS. Why should we have to pay to go to work, we already pay taxes. Maybe instead of sending all our 3/6/2012 money to help third world countries we should spend it to help our own. Eddie Gay Chesapeake VA 23322 United States this toll solution is absolutely the worst solution. increase the gas tax, so that EVERYBODY contributes to the 3/6/2012 solution!! sam smith vabeach VA 23464 United States this is so stupid!!! how can we aford this?? Gas is so high we cant even pay for what we have now. DONT BUILD THE 3/6/2012 DAM THING!!!! Joanna Strong Norfolk VA 23513 United States This is so wrong for so many reasons. There has to be another way. Instead, poor and middle class have to pay for 3/6/2012 everything while the UPPER CLASS get tax breaks. John Lifsey Portsmouth VA 23707 United States 3/6/2012 This will fracture Tidewater. I travel the downtown tunnel for work. Michael Cohen Virginia Beach VA 23464 United States The state has no business collecting money by ANY means until it produces a traffic improvement plan that it can 3/6/2012 demonstrate will work. So far no one has done that. Crystal Hardy Chesapeake VA 23320 United States 3/6/2012 Because this will be a heavier burden for the poor to bear than for others. James Pendleton Va.Beach VA 23454 United States 3/6/2012 I believe there are other alternitives than tolls , Richard Aufenger Norfolk VA 23508 United States gas tax increase is best solution‐unfair to apply tolls to Norfolk/Portsmouth & not tax Richmond and Northern 3/7/2012 Virginia in similar way. John Lapke Virginia Beach VA 23451 United States 3/7/2012 tolls for new roads, not upgrades to existing roads Melissa VanHorn Chesapeake VA 23324 United States I work for a florist company and we don't need anymore delays or problems getting from city to city. The traffic is bad enough to deal with and now you want to put tolls up. Why work when it's getting to the point with gas prices and now toll's who will make making any money just to pay bills, we are going to have to choose soon pay bill's or 3/7/2012 buy gas and toll's. NO TOLL"S JoAnne Brock Chesapeake VA 23321 United States I am only working PT in Norfolk. I have to use the tunnel in both directions to get to my job. This will severely impact 3/7/2012 my ability to work in Norfolk and will be a great financial burden when added to the increasing gas costs as well. Adrian Ausbun Virginia Beach VA 23462 United States I travel these roads too regularly to stop for a toll. By adding these tolls our economy will be thrown even further 3/7/2012 down the gutter. Howard Wanda Chespeake VA 23324 United States Money. We are having ftrouble making ends meet. Have the government take funds from around rhe Washington 3/7/2012 area and improve the Tidewater area, There isa idea Tonja Halmrast Suffolk VA 23435 United States 3/7/2012 Because it's crap! I'll have to pay (in tolls) a minimum of $26 a day to work. I think what our Governor has done is exactly what Obama has done with health care. Many WORKING people Beverly Smith Chesapeake VA 23321 United States 3/7/2012 cannot afford these tolls. But then, who in Richomond cares? I think we should Impeach our Governor. Page 89 of 102
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