Sen Dipalma et al
The Citizens pay fuel taxes at both the state and Federal level earmarked for the Highway and bridge upkeep etc.. As I stated in a email to you back when you were on the revenue enhancement study group for highway maintenance funding - Among the topics The Rt 24 Aquidneck Island bridge replacement in part due to malfeasance of management in annual maintenance , repair and required replacement. Accordingly the new / replacement bridge design phase and then implementation phase was essentially from those funding sources (as advertised in the legacy construction site signage and several additional documents). Today a bait and switch so called revenue stream enhancement Smith Hill slight of hand. Yes, an accounting fraud performed to transfer the rt 24 Aquidneck Island bridge to a quasi public corporation and perform another plunder of the tax payer and the highway user. Yes, RI co mingles the monies and drains off (socialist wealth redistribution) funds for further expansion of the RI Pseudo Socialist agendas. Especially public works projects has been a source of the welfare industry, bond brokers and unions for all to long. This further exacerbates the terrible environment for business and chases away the talented citizens that we need to attract business. Will you work to undo this latest fraud of the tax paying legal citizens of RI.. Remove the tolls on the rt 24 bridge connecting Aquidneck Island that we have already paid for several times over.