Strange on a Toll Road
Looks like Luther Strange is getting on a toll road to see how far it may take him. Strange represents a group that is proposing a public-private partnership to build a toll road from Montgomery to I-10 in Florida or perhaps Highway 98 further south. No federal or state money would be used, and the project could be built within five years. (Incidentally, Strange lost the race for Lt. Governor to Democrat Jim Folsom who is pushing a highway project of his own.)
Republican Strange, the once and future candidate for statewide office, floats these ideas past us to remind us that he is out there thinking up his good ideas for the state, e.g. removing sales tax off of groceries, increasing state funding for pre-K programs, and at one time he was
working on putting together a public-private partnership on work force development that could involve using students to rehabilitate houses, which would provide them with marketable construction skills.
The toll road would create economic corridors and bring thousands of jobs to the area, Strange said in the Dothan Eagle. It is not just a toll road, but “an economic development ‘foyer.’”
And while Strange is not in full-fledged campaign mode, he appears to be approaching its foyer.
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