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Truck-lane toll roads * USA - Worth Study
Missouri motorists understand the value of safe roads - They also know that highway maintenance is a never-ending proposition
Joplin,MO,USA -The Joplin Globe -March 12, 2008: ... But they aren’t likely to buy into any big-dollar road program that adds nickels and dimes to motor-fuel taxes and then pours part of that new revenue into alternative forms of transportation, such as airports, light rail or mass transit. As for turning some existing highways into toll roads, well, forget it. Voters have shot down the toll-road plans by overwhelming margins... But here is a toll plan that ought to be included in the discussion the next time legislators talk about long-term highway solutions: a public-private partnership to build toll roads for big trucks. Those four-lane routes would parallel interstates 44 and 70 and perhaps even U.S. 71, which one day will be folded into the interstate system... The benefits for truckers might be, say, higher speed limits and larger load limits. Those issues and others, such as caps on tolls, would be negotiated between the state and the operators... Would such a plan work in Missouri? It clearly is worth investigating by lawmakers...
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