Toll Road Elbert County Action Group
Last Updated 15 March 2005
By gesuchan@earthlink.net

This is the Home Page of the Toll Road Elbert County Action Group. These pages are a work in progress and will be updated as needed. Our intention is to maintain news of our activity and to make available the facts that we have obtained about the issue of the Front Range Toll Road, AKA the "Super Slab".

The BLOG Front Range Toll Road Warriors, has current announcements of meetings, events and activities of Toll Road Elbert County Action Group and other other Action Groups related to the Front Range Toll Road. You can also find links to other related sites there.

You can also read, post and discuss this issue on on the Energize Elbert Discussion Board. This discussion board is open to anyone and is intended to encourage community conversation and information about community issues. Please feel free to post information there, to initiate a conversation there about the toll road, Elbert County Government or related topics, or to continue the thread of any conversation you find already there.

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Contents (these are links):

Plan of Organization and Action

How to Contact this Action Group

Where to view the official Colorado Bill 1030 "Private Toll Roads"

State Senate Transportation Committee - Hearings on H. B. 1030

The Front Range Toll Road Co. Inc. (Includes a map of the corridor)

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Toll Road Elbert County Action Group Initial Plan of Organization and Action
Friday, March 04, 2005
Author?

The following is the initial plan of organization and action for the Toll Road Elbert County Action Group created at the Thursday 4 March 2005 organizational meeting. This plan is a living document and will be updated as required to accommodate new ideas and developments.

Goals:

Stop the toll road. (?? Any better way of stating this??) [This needs to be replaced with something that is more palatable to the energized citizens who object to it. How about "We may not want to stop the toll road but we haven't met any citizen in Elbert County who wants it." OK, that's too long, but that's the idea. Jerry]
Responsible development of Eastern Colorado.

Organizational Sub Groups:

Research, Attorney, Legislative - Active.
Local Level - Not active, volunteers needed.
Inter County Communications - Active
Media and Public Relations - Not active, but covered by 5 for now. Volunteers needed,
Picketing, Letter Writing, Petitions, Etc. - Active
Responsible Development Research - Not active, volunteers needed.
Fundraising - Not active, volunteers needed.

Tasks will be assigned as needed within each group, but there are some mutual tasks that we are all trying to achieve:

Stop the next bill from passing in the Senate.
Coordinate information, both internally to the Action Group and externally with like action groups.
Weekly meetings.

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How to Contact this Action Group

The single point contact for the "Toll Road Elbert County Action Group" is now Patty Sward (sward@mho.com) until further notice. Karen and I are, of course, the contact for Energize Elbert.

Respectfully,
Jerry (gesuchan@earthlink.net) and Karen (ksuchan@mindspring.com) Suchan / Energize Elbert

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Where to view the official Colorado Bill 1030 "Private Toll Roads"

The Colorado House Bill 1030 "Private Toll Roads" can be downloaded as a PDF file at Here. Should that link be changed, all the Colorado HOUSE - Current Regular Session Bills can be found Here.

Everyone should be aware that the wording is subject to change a it moves further through the legislative process. Therefore anything that may be said or concluded now about it may not be valid in the future.

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State Senate Transportation Committee - Hearings on H. B. 1030

The following was posted on the Energize Elbert Discussion Board.

Subject: Front Range Toll Road Legislation H. B. 1030
Name: John Shipper
Date Posted: Feb 25, 05 - 5:47 PM
Message: The Colorado State Senate Transportation Committee
will be holding hearings on H. B. 1030 within the next
couple of weeks. All interested parties need to contact Senators on the Senate Transportation
Committee as soon as possible.

Members Are: Senator Stephanie Takis 303/866-4855(O)
Chairperson 303/343-8303(H)
Senator Suzanne Williams 303/866-3432(O)
Vice-Chairperson 303/751-2396(H)
Senator Bob Hagedorn 303/866-4879(O)
303/367-1994(H)
Senator Jim Isgar 303/866-3341(O)
970/385-7664(H)
Senator Ron May 303/866-2737(O)
719/591-2330(H)
Senator Nancy Spence 303/866-4883(O)
303/690-5106(H)
Senator Tom Wiens 303/866-4869(O)
303/681-9344(H)
Senator Williams is Vice-Chairperson of the Senate
Transportation Committee and the Senate Sponsor of
H.B. 1030. Please be sure that she understands your
concern about a transportation corridor designed for
commercial truck traffic, railroads and hazardous waste transportation.
Also, please contact Senator Mark Hillman, Senate
Minority Leader, who represents Elbert County.
Senator Hillman phone # 303/866-2318(O)
719/346-7689(H)

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The Front Range Toll Road Co. Inc.

The Front Range Toll Road web page provides quite a bit of information about the planned toll road. It has a map of the corridor, but that map will be slow to download as it is a large file. As this web page appears to have been provided by the Front Range Toll Road Co. Inc., I suggest that everyone consider there is additional facts that have bearing on the issues than what is provided there. This toll road is enabled by CHB 1030, but the bill does not specifically say anything about the Front Range Toll Road. One gets the impression that CHB 1030 is crafted specifically for the Front Range Toll Road.