Great video below about why infrastructure improvements surrounding Suffolk Downs will be inadequate.
Let's remember that Senator Petrucelli claimed that a report he commissioned indicated the cost of necessary infrastructure improvements would be:
However, Petruccelli said his support for a Suffolk Downs casino would come with conditions …one being a commitment from Suffolk Downs to finance a overhaul of the Route 1A corridor from the Sumner/Callahan Tunnels to Copeland Circle in Revere.
In 2009, an independent study commissioned by Petruccelli showed that regardless if a casino is built at Suffolk Downs costs to improve the infrastructure along the Route 1A corridor from the Sumner/Callahan Tunnels to Copeland Circle in Revere would cost the state almost $500 million.
Notice how the JOB estimate has grown --
“Suffolk Downs ownership predicts they could create 2,500 permanent jobs in the opening months of a casino,” he said.
http://middlebororemembers.blogspot.com/2011/10/senator-petrucelli-sticks-taxpayers.html
Suffolk Downs Casino video --
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/18753376/suffolk-downs-casino
(FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – The proposed casino at Suffolk Downs has a lot of people concerned with the increased traffic. Celeste Myers from "No Eastie Casino," who says the new infrastructure would increase traffic on Route One by 25 percent and it just won't work, recently joined the FOX 25 Morning News.
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