To the Editor:

The litany of pro-rooftop highway comments continues uninterrupted. This is a monumental project and so very few people are involved in the process.

When is a real opposition going to start making some noise? I guess we’ll have to wait and see who is in the right of way, what local roads will be dead-ended, what areas will be cut in half.

For the good of the north country, let’s get this thing started because it’s our last hope for a decent economy.

This is the mantra that’s heard over and over but really not questioned. Lot’s of real good thinkers out there not saying a word because most of them are locked into the notion that “it’s never going to happen.”

I know most of us have better things to do than get involved in this project but the wheels are turning and momentum is building if only because very few of us are bothering to question the authorities.

There are many trap doors to the argument that it is good for the north country.

Whose good is being promoted here?

What about the DOT’s plan to build by-passes/truck routes and passing lanes on the RT 11 corridor where a lot of businesses are?

Has the DOT been swayed from that very realistic plan? Lots of construction jobs there plus it enhances our real economic engine RT 11.

Why destroy so much property? I don’t get that part. Do we have lots of extra land that we can donate?

It’s a boondoggle from day one and I’m just waiting for one politician, just one, to see through this and say no to the rooftop and yes to eleven.

John Casserly

Canton