Mon Valley Toll Road

==Background ==
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* Planks from Mark Rauterkus about the Mon Valley Toll Road
* Letter to editor from John Fetterman, Kill the Mon-Fayette Monstrosity!
* Opposition to the MFX from Mike Isaac, candidate for US Congress in the May, 2006, D primary
* Mon Valley Toll Road-planks-Ravenstahl from Feb 2007 candidate night
* Mon Valley Toll Road-statement-Onorato from Pgh City Paper in July, 2006
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* The environmental review phase was in 2002.
* In Decmeber 2004, the building of the expressway was confirmed in the newspapers.
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*Mon Valley Toll Road-Pro-LTE from November, 2006
* Road building advocates donated to both Tom Murphy's and Bob O'Connor's campaigns in 2001. Bob's own district was strongly agains the road, but Bob's loyalty was purchased.
* Mon Valley Progress Council
:* president, Joe Vesely
* Mon Fayette Expressway and Southern Beltway Alliance
* Two Pittsburgh law firms are to provide pro bono services to support the road's construction. 
:* Pepper Hamilton L.L.P.
:* Springer, Bush & Perry P.C.
* Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has a myopic view and should cease.
The 131 businesses, labor groups and economic development organizations that belong to the alliance are engaged in fund raising to cover legal costs the groups may incur aside from the law firms' free services.
==Links==
===Media===
* Mon Valley Toll Road-statement-Onorato from the Pgh City Paper in July, 2006
===Blogs===
* Blog posting from Progress Pittsburgh against the MFX with link to a nice podcast, 
* http://angrydrunkbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2008/01/onorato-takes-lead-for-mfx-slams-fork.html
** The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Onorato Takes Lead for MFX; Slams Fork into Eye for Encore</a>: "There are few things in Western Pennsylvania public policy that I get as angry about as the Mon-Fayette Expressway: a heaping, hulking stretch of highway that is supposed to stretch from Downtown Pittsburgh to the the grand metropolis of Morgantown WV, thereby spawning economic development, freeing up transportation opportunities for the Mon Valley, and otherwise launching a wave of unsubstantiatable goals and accomplishments.
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