What is this about Mike Burke , head of the Tiverton DEm's telling people to go do something with words normaly not used in public, and then storming out of a meeting, Does this mean that Tiverton taxpayers cannot count on help fighting tolls from theTTDC?This is one of the biggest things that will ever effect this town and none of us can afford to kowtow to the general assembly

To those users who posts I deleted, may I direct you to a blog written by a Middletown resident about her resolution to think, THEN act. That's how we roll on Patch, so please control the personal insults.

http://middletown.patch.com/articles/resolving-to-think

Wait...Jim comes back and suddenly posts start getting deleted and pretty quickly too. How odd.

Please try to let an editor enjoy her Saturday and keep it civil. That's all we ask.

I am glad that the comments that are nothing but personal comment are removed They have no place in this discssion and to bring up Dan Gordon is just silly this is a fight about the future, not the past every single person from childhood on down will lose if tolls are put in place, has anyone seen the news about price increases on everything going up this year?Does anyone think that paying $40.00 dollars for a transponder and refilling it will help the family budget?To let tolls happen at all with harm this town i believe beyond repair

Just Another Taxpayer, we do our best to monitor comments. but there might be comments we miss, across the various sites. If you see something that is offensive, we want to know about it so please email the local editor to bring it to his/her attention. As a user, you can also "flag" comments.

Jat the tranponder is a fixed price, but the toll could be increased by the RITBA just about anytime they want, I guess if Piava weed has her way any increases would be on the new bridge so her backers keep her in office, I really believe that one way or another this will end up in court, The Ga just see's the money coming out of this, I think we can expect a "oh well we tried" type of effort on the part of many DEMS, I hope i'm wrong, It wil have a major effect on Newport county and will just shut the indy park down among other bad effects

Jim L a while back before you disappeared you stated that the govern ment of Mass would soon be joining the anti toll fight. Has that happened yet and if not when will that happen. Please note Jim L that this post is all honest and very polite before you try to remove it an block my free speech.

if someone told me I had to pay to use a library would I go? not sure I would. I believe tolls represent a similar sort of access, there are beaches elsewhere without tolls, certainly more access to stores and shopping elsewhere. How is this going to grow revenue. Certainly the bridge was needed but so was the remapping of 195 in providence, where are the tolls to maintain that? No Justice.

The State of MA. will have something to say in this deal Manny, just like NUSC the war college and Raythoen will speak up if the tolls are put into effect, I see no reason to flag your post, and it is not up tp me to delete anyones posts, The editor deletes posts that do not follow the terms of service, free spech is a right in this county but personal attacks are not a right

Jim L how would that state of Mass, who may in fact benefit from tolls on the bridge in the way of extra business, have any possible say in what goes on in Rhode Island. Please explain where it is that you get this info or is it just another Jim L theory. We also all know that you and your family are very quick to hit the flag button on any post that you deem an insult. Where were you by the way we all missed your well thought out rambles?

everyonewho woprks on the island from mass would be subject to a $8.00 or $10.00 daily fee just to go to work, I have no inside scoop or anything else manny, it's juat logic, and i have not flagged any comments, the editors of patch sem to be cracking down on personal insults, which i think is a good thing

Jim L. I oppose the tolls just as you do. However, please stop making generalizations like "everyonewho woprks on the island from mass would be subject to a $8.00 or $10.00 daily fee just to go to work". While everyone would be required to pay a toll(assuming efforts to stop it fail), everyone would not pay $8-$10 as you state. Many would buy the transponder which means it would cost much less per trip than you profess in your post. Please stick the facts when trying to make your point.

JAT I think you owe Jim L an apology

I agree Former.

The E-ZPass electronic toll reading system used by 24 tolling agencies in 14 states in the Northeast and Midwest is able to differentiate where motorists bought their passes and apply varying prices.

Motorists traveling the full length of the New Jersey Turnpike during off-peak hours, for example, pay $10.40 if they bought their E-ZPass from the turnpike's operators. If they bought their E-ZPass from another tolling authority, or if they're paying cash, the charge is $13.85. Rhode Island residents with an E-ZPass can cross the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, which spans part of the Narragansett Bay, for 83 cents, but out-of-state passenger car drivers with E-ZPass pay $4 ($2 per axle), the same as drivers paying cash.

New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority charges motorists who bought their E-ZPasses locally $4.80 to cross the Robert F. Kennedy, Bronx-Whitestone and Throgs Neck bridges and use the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens Midtown tunnels. Motorists with transponders purchased elsewhere, or who pay cash, are charged $6.50.

Similar arrangements exist in New Hampshire, Maine and West Virginia, according to AAA, the auto club.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/autos/story/2012-05-24/toll-roads/55192642/1

Out of state users can get a "commuter" rate for Pell Bridge. ( Look it up Peggy. )
Not many people realize that you can.

I have a NJ transponder because i wa driving to VA alot, when i cross the Pell bridge it cost me $4.00 OR i could just go thru Providence, The Pell bridge was built to great tourist to go thru Newport on their was to Cape Cod

I'm glad to see Middletown residents stateing their oppsition to Tolls on the Sakonett River Bridge, This is the biggest issue Newport county will ever face, It wil do more harm han good to every person in Newport county. NO TOLLS

Good point JimL now all we need is for the state government of Massachusetts to come riding to the rescue. Jim L when do you think they will be getting involved to protect their citizens like you said they would.

I guess you missed the article in the Fall River Herald news about about the Ma. selectman from Fall River asking for a study on how this would effect the voter in his district, Sorry manny you blew this one big time, But this is about your personnel feeling toward me and not about the truth or tolls, isn't it?

Okay Jim a selectman from the Riv asking for an impact study is a long way from the state government of Mass coming into try to stop the tolls as you said they would be doing. Sorry JImL you blew this one big time. Maybe you should have been paying more attention. I heard your wife pulled your computer priveleges for a couple of months, hence your long and pleasant absence.

Jim L could you do us all the favor of posting that article or a link to it and then maybe explaining how the government of Mass could possibly lobby RI to not collect tolls while they do the same thing everyday in several different places. You are the one who made this stuff up JImL. it goes to your creditability which after the whole Nelson attack letter is really pretty low.

Robert E, I'm not really sure how the Ma. goverment works so I may have used the wrong term But if you check the article on STOP in the Thursday or friday herald news you will see what I refer to. Manny go do your own homework, YOU will start to count when you find your real name

Jim L perhaps you should then use your real name everytime you post. I'd there a reason why you don't use all the letters in your last name.

bigmanny The patch pest

Fake Richard Joslin the patch poster who can't seem to keep it clean. Were you able to find the article that Jim L(not real name) is talking about?

Joe, I mean Fake Richard, have you had any posts deleted lately?