BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 24, 2024
Mainers will be voting to decide whether the state will borrow 30 million dollars “… to invest in the design, development and maintenance for non motorized, motorized and multi-use trails statewide. The language of both the bill title and the bond question are misleading. The bond thus in reality provides for only 25 percent of the funds to be dedicated for non-motorized and active transportation and as much as 75 percent of the funds for motorized trails. At a time when we need to be moving away from further air and noise pollution, reducing our fossil fuel consumption and getting more exercise, we should not be investing such large amounts of borrowed money on recreational infrastructure that promotes the opposite. ~ Connie Potvin, Hampden