The Association of Monroe County Taxpayers has joined the I-69 Truth Squad along with Citizens for Appropriate Rural Roads and the Hoosier Environmental Council.
Association Executive Director Greg Travis says the organization will offer financial perspective to the I-69 debate. He says the Truth Squad aims to counter I-69 supporters' claims that the highway will benefit the state economically. Travis says the size of the interstate project deserves close financial scrutiny.
"There's too much money involved and it tends to lose a critical focus," says Travis. "I think it's very important for organizations such as ours and others to try and bring that critical focus back to it and to see if this is really the best way we can invest an amount of money, as much as we're talking about investing, for the state's future."
Travis says money going into highway construction will be far greater than actual economic returns to the state.