Saying they dont want to tie their own hands, Jackson County Commissioners on Tuesday refused a request to wait for a grassroots committee’s input before taking any action on a proposed toll road through Jackson County.

While a committee of interested persons in Jackson County, Fla., discuss the pros and cons of a proposed toll road, the road’s organizers find themselves in a Catch 22.

A limited access toll road may bring unprecedented economic growth for the local area.

Alabama Department of Transportation workers spent most of last week handing out survey cards to random drivers on major arteries into the city. The surveys will assess the feasibility of a toll road bypass.

COTTONDALE, Fla. — A community meeting about a proposed toll road in this area is scheduled for next Tuesday in the Cottondale civic center.

Our neighbors to the south in Jackson County, Fla., have been given a tremendous gift thanks to the boneheaded vote of the year by the Washington County (Fla.) Commission.

With the Florida Panhandle county of Washington deciding Monday to pass on a proposed toll road, organizers say they will continue with the project and are now focusing on Washington’s eastern neighbor, Jackson County.

It’s been called by different names, such as the I-10 connector and the Dothan bypass, but the reality of a road project pursued by local visionaries and promised by politicians suggests the initiative be more appropriately called “smoke.”

I cannot believe your inconsistency in reporting news of real substance for your readers. For some time, the Downtown Dothan Redevelopment Authority has been threatening to use the city of Dothan’s power of eminent domain to do what it calls development or improvement.

Houston County is moving forward as the lead entity in a public/private partnership with a non-profit group to construct, operate and maintain a toll road that would connect U.S. 231 with I-10 in Florida.

Houston County is moving forward as the lead entity in a public/private partnership with a non-profit group to construct, operate and maintain an Interstate 10 toll road that would connect U.S. 231 with I-10 in Florida.