2012/11/19 RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE TOLLING OF I-95 THROUGH NORTH CAROLINAHarnett
COUNTY
NORTH CAROLINA
Resolution Opposing the Tolling of I -95
through North Carolina
WHEREAS, the Harnett County Board of Commissioners supports the need for improvements
and maintenance of 1 -95 from the Virginia State Line to the South Carolina State Line: and
WHEREAS, the Board understands the financial challenges of adding lanes, repairing and
maintaining this vital transportation corridor; and
WHEREAS, the effect of a toll on visitors traveling into our state has not been studied or
considered as a significant factor in the decision to tax travelers to generate funds to pay for
maintenance and improvements; and
WHEREAS, it is our opinion that the impact on existing industries, businesses and economic
development retention and recruitment along the 1 -95 corridor as well as Eastern North
Carolina's tourism industry should be evaluated and considered before moving forward with
consideration of instituting tolls on I -95; and
WHEREAS, the toll would create an unfair hardship on local citizens who travel 1 -95 to and
from work each day within the state and across state borders;
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Harnett County Board of Commissioners hereby
respectfully asks that the General Assembly not authorize a North Carolina Toll Road and Bridge
Authority to Toll 1 -95, unless and until a study of the economic impact of a tolling system for I-
95 on tourism, economic development, and local citizens of Eastern North Carolina, has been
completed.
ADOPTED by the Harnett County Board of Commissioners on this 19`h day of November,
2012.
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Timothy WMcNeill, Chairman
Harnett County Board of Commissioners
Attest:
Maroret Regin heeler, Clerk to the Board
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