I asked if the providers of information to the public had to identify themselves. No, he said. The ads were commissioned and paid for by the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority, using money you and I paid to cross the Niagara River. The ad only says that they ve got on their side the labor and business people who support jobs and economic growth, implying that anyone who does not want to have a movement now is opposed to both. Of course taxpayer money is being used in the bridge construction project.
Taxpayers pay the bridge tolls.
Taxpayers pay for maintenance of I-190 and its access roads upon which the PBA s beloved truck traffic is totally dependent. Taxpayers pay for maintenance of Buffalo city streets utilized by the small portion of those trucks not headed for distant markets. Taxpayers paid for Front Park, which the PBA has gobbled up and destroyed for its current office and truck plaza. Taxpayers pay for the environmental effects of all those noxious truck emissions. Taxpayers are the major contributors to this project, however much the Bridge Authority board members want to deny it.