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"RIDICULOUS" * USA: Transportation plan based on truck tolling ...
* Rhode Island - A possible legal action against "discrimination of one type of vehicle"
(Video Road and Bridge Proposals, from WPRI on Oct 28, 2015: GOP and Trucking Assoc. both offer alternate plans to Gov. Raimondo's RhodeWorks)
-- When Rhode Island Gov., Gina Raimondo, announced her transportation plan based on truck tolling Oct. 8, Rhode Island Trucking Association released an alternative focused on increases in fuel taxes and registration fees while threatening to sue if Raimondo’s proposal plan, becomes law... The trucking group's plan would produce an estimated $10.8 million annually by raising the state’s 34-cent diesel tax by 18 cents, which would still be 3 cents shy of the tax in neighboring Connecticut. A $500 increase in truck registration fees, currently the lowest in New England, would generate an expected $1.6 million annually. According to Rhode Island Trucking Association President Chris Maxwell, the plan would produce the same $220 million as RhodeWorks allocated to fix 453 of the state’s bridges unrelated to the 6/10 connector. Rhode Island has the highest percentage of structurally deficient bridges of any state, 22%. Starting in the fifth year, the Rhode Island trucking group's alternative would generate more than $25 million annually, enough to address the 6/10 connector, which consumes the vast majority of RhodeWorks' revenues...
Providence, R.I., USA - 12WPRI - 28 Oct 2015
Labels: infrastructures' funds
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