No need for new toll
Dear Independent,
The Maine Turnpike Authority has stated that traffic on the turnpike has decreased more than 4 percent last month. They also state this has caused a great decrease in their income.
The MTA states they believe this trend will continue and projects may have to be delayed or put off.
One of the main reasons the MTA has given for spending $40 million to relocate the York Toll Plaza is the capacity issue. That issue is now not an issue!
Will the MTA now stop spending money to justify something that is not needed?
Joan Jarvis
York Harbor
Accurate report?
Dear Independent,
I take issue with the reporting in The York Weekly's July 9 edition regarding the Board of Selectmen's meeting on July 7.
I did NOT ask Ms. Gregg to "prove" that the ONE York Housing meeting in question ever took place. I was told that it had and acknowledged that fact. What I DID ask her to prove was her statement that Mr. Gambrill was responsible for "many other meetings" that were not publicized. Of course she could not prove that, because it simply was a false accusation, as well as demeaning to that individual. How can she also possibly be "concerned about the housing authority's lack of openness" when reports of all meetings and financial information are routinely submitted by them to the town, all meetings are open to the public and the fact that she can cite only one meeting not being publicized out of all the years York Housing has been serving York so very well?
In my opinion, Ms. Gregg as well as Mr. Marshall are intent on politicizing and clouding the Workforce Affordable Housing issue, and stopping it by casting doubt upon, and putting pressure on Mr. Estes and Mr. Gambrill, both of whom simply look forward to finally allowing the voters of York to decide in November.
Also, The Weekly failed to mention my statement regarding my main concern that she makes hurtful, unfounded and uncorroborated remarks that are "beneath the dignity of this board," and that she needs to be more careful. In that statement, I used the illustration of her demeaning citizens who she said live in "cookie cutter" houses at the corner of Ridge Road and Old Post. Although that may have been an opinion, it was hurtful to the families and had nothing to do with the safety issue at hand. I could have included other illustrations such as her fact-less and sharp-tongued charge that the Workforce Housing Ordinance now before our citizens is "lousy" and "regurgitated." She cannot substantiate that because it is not true.
On another occasion regarding some land the town was selling to a specific bidder as un-buildable because of a wetland issue, she demeaned that person by asking what would keep him from dumping fill there in the middle of the night to make it buildable. There have been several other instances, but I think you get my point.
Respectfully submitted,
Ted Little
York
