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  • Federal bills introduced to prevent tolls

    10/31/2007 6:43:35 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 18 replies · 153+ views
    eTrucker ^ | October 31 | Jill Dunn
    U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, has introduced the Toll Road Prohibition Act, the latest bill designed to prevent tolling on federally built highways. HR 3802, introduced Oct. 10, would require states and cities to repay the U.S. government all federal funds used for construction of highways, bridges or tunnels, along with “reasonable interest,” before introducing tolls. “The American people should not be required to pay for the same highway twice, once through their tax dollars and again through new tolls on federal interstate highways,” Boswell said. The legislation would not prohibit the states from entering into public-private toll agreements, but...
  • Act 44 at a glance

    08/23/2007 1:55:20 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 24 replies · 619+ views
    The Derrick and NewsHerald ^ | August 20, 2007 | The Derrick and NewsHerald
    The plan to convert the 311-mile-long Interstate-80 into a toll road is part of Act 44 in Pennsylvania. Overall, the legislation generates a huge amount of money to accomplish a wide range of bridge and road improvements, including those on Pennsylvania's interstates, the turnpike and secondary highways. Those projects will be funded with borrowed money that will be repaid by tolls on I-80 and the turnpike. Tolls on the 530-mile long turnpike will be increased by 25 percent in 2009 and 3 percent each successive year. The same tolls charged on the turnpike will be charged on I-80. Specifically, Act...