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An Open Letter to Governor O'Malley FAXED April 19, 2007 April 19, 2007
Governor Martin J. O'Malley Dear Governor O'Malley, I am writing in representation of the 4,000 members of the Montgomery Intercounty Connector Coalition (MICC), which since 1989 has opposed any manifestation of an intercounty connector (ICC). Please halt the ICC process until you have read and responded to this letter. Also, please do not refer this letter to Mr. John Porcari, your Director of Transportation; it is of vital importance that you reply directly to us to ensure that you have been fully apprized of the critical issues related to an ICC, and can demonstrate a thorough knowledge of an ICC and its consequences yourself. You will understand, Governor O'Malley, how heartened we were when in 1999 Governor Glendening suspended the study of an ICC after learning of the enormous environmental destruction that it would wreak. You also will recognize our dismay when your predecessor Robert Ehrlich made an ICC his number-one transportation priority in 2002. For the past four years, we have combated Ehrlich's push for an ICC predicated upon his and other people's fiction that this highway would relieve traffic in Montgomery County, that it could be constructed in an environmentally acceptable way, that it would not affect the quality of life of county residents in a detrimental fashion, and that it could be built for a reasonable amount of state revenue without jeopardizing other more worthy projects. Why We Supported You in 2006 In the 2006 gubernatorial election, we actively supported you, Governor O'Malley, for the following reasons: 1. Despite your public statements supporting an ICC, you made other statements that led us to believe that you might reconsider: In September, 2003, the Baltimore Sun reported your concern about the cost of an ICC. In March, 2006 at a campaign stop at Leisure World, you said that you originally were in favor of the ICC, but that was before it became a toll road. You said you do not favor a Lexus highway, that one road would not solve all of Maryland's transportation problems and with Ehrlich's plan there would be no more money to explore other transportation options. To read the entire letter, click here.
 The InterCounty Connector (ICC) is a proposed 18 mile limited access highway planned to cross Montgomery County from I-270 in Gaithersburg to I-95 south of Laurel.
 What You Can Do to Stop the ICC MICC and the other Save Our Communities campaign members continue to seize every opportunity to testify, write letters, and galvanize citizen support against the ICC. Now is the time to step up against the ICC; now is the time for everyone to act. Also, please renew your membership to MICC and send in a contribution to our legal fund so that we have the resources to fight the ICC on all fronts. Thank you for your support against the ICC. |
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