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TOLLS * USA
* Pennsylvania Turnpike official says I-80 tolls better than privatization
PA,USA -Land Line Magazine -August 29, 2007: -- Joseph Brimmeier, CEO of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, has been touring the state in recent days speaking to media and community groups about a recent proposal to increase turnpike tolls and convert Interstate 80 into a toll road... During budget proceedings in July, the Pennsylvania State Legislature passed Act 44 as part of transportation funding legislation HB1590. The act enables the state to issue bonds to pay for roads, bridges and mass transit and repay the debt through tolls... The funding, Brimmeier said, will allow the state to avoid leasing infrastructure assets to private investors...
* Maine Private toll road proposed in
MN,USA -Land Line Magazine -August 29, 2007: -- A businessman in Maine is pitching the idea of a privately built toll road that would link the state with Quebec on the west and New Brunswick on the east... According to the Bangor Daily News, Peter Vigue, president of Cianbro Corp. – a large construction company – also says he has received assurances from a New York bank that private funding would be available... Vigue said the state couldn’t build such a highway because it can’t afford to purchase right-of-way or pay for construction...
* Kentucky bill would authorize tolls for roads, bridges
KY,USA -Land Line Magazine -August 27, 2007: -- A leading state lawmaker in Kentucky wants to give cities and counties authority to issue bonds and create tolls for roads and bridges... Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, has prefiled a bill for consideration during the next regular session that would allow local governments to create public infrastructure authorities that could issue bonds for road and bridge work, privatize projects and place tolls on the projects. The agencies also would have control of state and federal highway money for road maintenance and construction projects...
* Massachusetts Considering Tolls, Rush-Hour Fees
MAS,USA - The Boston Herald /Transport Topics -29 Aug 2007: -- Mass., may put tolls on Interstate 93 and toll other state highways during peak travel times... Citing a confidential draft report from a legislative commission, the Herald said that tolls and a short-term hike in state’s gasoline tax were being touted as solutions to the state’s transportation funding shortfall... Longer-term changes could include introduction of new tolls on I-93 and other highways, as well as methods of charging motorists based on the time of day and distance they travel...
* Georgia - Toll lane draft plan is illegal
Atlanta,GA,USA -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by ARIEL HART -30 Aug 2007: -- The massive toll lane project along I-75 and I-575 in Cobb and Cherokee counties is under attack from interest groups who notified the state Department of Transportation that they think the current plan to expand the road is illegal and otherwise ill-advised... DOT spokeswoman Karlene Barron called the groups' comments "significant" but not unexpected in the development of such a big and groundbreaking project... Lawyers representing the trucking industry and freight-related companies wrote DOT that they consider the project, as currently contemplated, to be "illegal under both federal and state law"... The quarrel may threaten the state's $4 billion, three-pronged project to combat congestion on interstates in Cobb and Cherokee counties with truck-only lanes, HOV lanes where solo drivers could drive for a fee, and bus rapid transit...
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