Toll ending question fails to make Mass. ballot

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By CBS 3 Springfield News

Story Published: Nov 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM EDT

Story Updated: Nov 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) - Drivers won't be getting a chance to vote on a
proposed ballot question to eliminate tolls in Massachusetts.

The group Citizens Against Road Tolls had filed two ballot
questions to require the state to eliminate tolls on the
Massachusetts Turnpike, Tobin Bridge and Boston Harbor tunnels by
Jan. 1, 2012.

The group's spokesman Michael Kelleher said they've fallen short
of the 66,593 voter signatures needed to put the questions on next
year's ballot.

Supporters of proposals to cut the state income tax rate to 3
percent, repeal the sales tax on alcohol and tighten restrictions
on carbon emissions from wood-burning power plants save they've
submitted enough signatures.

Wednesday was the deadline for signatures to be delivered to
local city and town clerks for certification.

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