THE EXECUTIVE body of the Portmore Citizens Advisory Committee (PCAC) is to meet with the stakeholders of Highway 2000 to discuss their concerns relating to the proposed toll to travel the causeway.
Vice-president of the group Carol McLean told The Gleaner yesterday that the group is still contemplating legal action.
"What we don't want the press to believe is that the residents are against paying a toll. What we are against is the magnitude of the toll and the alternative route proposed," said Ms. McLean.
"We accept that development is taking place but we are definitely against the whole taking away of the causeway without any replacement and that is why the residents are saying no toll," she said.
Two weeks ago scores of angry Portmore residents declared they are prepared to fight the proposed $65 per trip toll charge across the soon-to-be-built high-speed six-lane bridge which is to replace the existing causeway bridge.
PARALLEL ALTERNATIVE
"We did our research and there is no country in the world where there is a toll road and we don't have a parallel alternative," explained Ms. McLean.
Minister of Transport and Works Robert Pickersgill said recently that no decision has been taken regarding the toll charge for Portmore.
The Portmore leg of the Highway 2000 project is expected to be completed by January 2006.
