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"These three unnecessary (toll road) projects would rip through small communities and rural areas." | #NoRoadsToRuin column by Rep. @BenDiamondFL /

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Toll roads to nowhere are not the solution | Column
These three unnecessary projects would rip through small communities and rural areas.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Help slam the brakes on the Toll Roads to Ruin! Submit your video testimonial with this easy tool:#RepealTheRoads #NoRoadsToRuin

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March 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Here's a simple but impactful way you can help slam the brakes on the Toll Roads to Ruin:#RepealTheRoads #NoRoadsToRuin

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March 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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"The entire M-CORES process has been flawed and represents a callous preference for special interests and developers over what is best for Florida," said Jon Bleyer of @ProgressFlorida , speaking for the @NoRoadsToRuin Coalition

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Democratic lawmakers want to kill controversial toll 'roads to nowhere' M-CORES plan
Three task forces now have independently arrived at the same conclusion: There is no proven need for an ambitious yet controversial toll-road building plan.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Thank you @TinaPolsky and @BenDiamondFL for working to repeal these destructive and unnecessary toll roads the vast majority of Floridians don’t want built:#RepealTheRoads #NoRoadsToRuin

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Democratic lawmakers want to kill controversial toll 'roads to nowhere' M-CORES plan
Three task forces now have independently arrived at the same conclusion: There is no proven need for an ambitious yet controversial toll-road building plan.
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March 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Killing FL barge canal 50 years ago offers lessons for stopping costly and destructive toll roads:#NoRoadsToRuin #RepealTheRoads

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Killing FL barge canal 50 years ago offers lessons for stopping toll roads • Florida Phoenix
Seeing Richard Nixon’s name popping up in news coverage of the second Trump impeachment has made me so nostalgic for my teen years, I may break out in pimples all over again. The first news event I remember is the moon landing, but the first one I really paid attention to, back when I was […]
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March 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Tell Florida’s New Legislative Leaders To Reject The Roads To Ruin:#NoRoadsToRuin #RejectTheRoads

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Tell Florida’s Legislative Leaders: Reject The Roads To Ruin
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March 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Tell Florida’s New Legislative Leaders: Reject The Toll Roads To Ruin:#RejectTheRoads #NoRoadsToRuin

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Florida fracking ban: uncertain - Progress Florida
The bill to ban fracking statewide is gaining momentum in the Florida Senate, but we all need to help if we’re going to pass it. It’s final committee before going to the floor will be the Senate Appropriations Committee and there the fate of the fracking ban is uncertain.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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If you believe, like us, spending upwards of $20 billion to build new toll roads in the most rural, wild & unpopulated areas of Florida is a terrible idea, be sure to follow @NoRoadsToRuin
March 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Report: No highway project would saddle a state with greater debt and irreversible environmental degradation than Florida’s M-CORES project:#NoRoadsToRuin #RejectTheRoads

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March 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Tell Florida’s New Legislative Leaders To Reject The Roads To Ruin:#RejectTheRoads #NoRoadsToRuin

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March 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Tell Florida’s New Legislative Leaders: Reject The Roads To Ruin:#RejectTheRoads #NoRoadsToRuin

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Florida fracking ban: uncertain - Progress Florida
The bill to ban fracking statewide is gaining momentum in the Florida Senate, but we all need to help if we’re going to pass it. It’s final committee before going to the floor will be the Senate Appropriations Committee and there the fate of the fracking ban is uncertain.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"The entire M-CORES process has been flawed and represents a callous preference for special interests and developers over what is best for Florida.#NoRoadsToRuin #pfla

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March 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Thousands of public comments show a whopping 93% oppose M-CORES toll-road projects#NoBuild #NoRoadsToRuin

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Thousands of public comments show overwhelming opposition to M-CORES toll-road projects • Florida Phoenix
More than 90 percent of people who commented on proposed construction of three massive toll roads through rural Florida oppose the plan, according to an analysis of the nearly 10,000 comments gleaned from public records. The “No Roads to Ruin Coalition” of Florida-based organizations and businesses announced Wednesday it filed multiple public-records requests starting last […]
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March 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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As consensus builds around #NoBuild option, @BillGalvano is forced to defend his unnecessary and destructive toll roads plan:#NoRoadsToRuin

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Galvano defends controversial toll-road plans
Task forces released draft reports Tuesday indicating they were unable to determine if there is a need for the projects.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“The report illustrates the potential existential threat to the Florida panther posed by...construction of a major new toll road in Southwest Florida.#NoBuild #NoRoadsToRuin

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March 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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“We continue to provide science-based input to the toll road task force, in an effort to identify the potential catastrophic impacts to nature that this road could have.”#NoBuild #NoRoadsToRuin

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Environmentalists say new toll road would threaten Florida panthers
The road in question would connect Polk and Collier counties, part of a bigger state highway expansion.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Florida accused of push for 'roads to nowhere' under cover of pandemic:#NoRoadsToRuin #NoBuild

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March 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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"M-CORES is a financially risky project with a significant price tag and little data demonstrating a true transportation need.#NoRoadsToRuin #NoBuild

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Analysis: 3 planned toll roads, including project from Polk to Collier, not fiscally feasible
The analysis included 500 simulations for the three roads, using a range of variables for each, and found none met a key financial marker.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Neither the environment nor the economy can afford to build 300 miles of new toll roads with questionable need:#NoRoadsToRuin #pfla

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New toll roads pose a threat to a less spoiled part of Florida | Commentary
The Nature Conservancy, which relies on sound science to protect nature, has concluded that new highways proposed for Florida threaten the history, culture and nature-based economy of the real or o…
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March 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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TAKE ACTION: Help put the brakes on the Toll Roads to Ruin:#NoRoadsToRuin #NoBuild

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Select M-CORES Task Force Members – No Roads to Ruin
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March 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Could there be a worse time to spend billions of Florida taxpayer dollars on a toll road to nowhere?#NoRoadsToRuin #pfla

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OUR VIEW: Now is not the time for roads to nowhere
Before, during and — someday, we hope — after the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida’s most challenging...
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March 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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80 organizations and businesses urge Gov. DeSantis and Legislature to redirect M-CORES funding to critical state needs:#NoRoadsToRuin #pfla

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Press Release: 80 Organizations and Businesses to Governor DeSantis and Legislature: Redirect M-CORES Funding to Critical State Needs – No Roads to Ruin
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March 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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"Many in the public simply don't want any of the three proposed toll roads to cut through different sections of Florida.#NoRoadsToRuin #NoBuild

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Skepticism over proposed toll road between Orlando, Naples dominates webinar
DOT presentation focused on emerging transportation technologies and how they can be used for new toll roads
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March 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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"Any additional fragmentation or loss of habitat is going to be very detrimental to the survival and recovery of the Florida panther.#NoRoadsToRuin

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Online meetings this week on proposed Florida toll highways
Several environmental groups oppose M-CORES, three proposed toll highways through rural parts of Florida. They want the whole plan scrapped.
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March 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM