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Virginia governor announces plan to toll I-81
The I-81 Corridor Improvement Plan submitted to the General Assembly in December by the Commonwealth Transportation Board noted that tolls on heavy commercial vehicles would not exceed 17 cents-per-mile.
January 9, 2019
Business
Rhode Island begins work on next 10 truck toll locations
Though still facing litigation from ATA and the state’s trucking association, Rhode Island is set to proceed with the construction of 10 more trucks-only toll gantries, scheduled to be completed by May 2020.
January 3, 2019
Business
Rhode Island truck tolls delayed again
A Providence Journal report states Rhode Island Department of Transportation Director Peter Alviti Jr. testified before Rhode Island House lawmakers last week that he expects the tolls to begin collecting “by the end of May.”
April 17, 2018
Business
Bestpass launches new web service
Bestpass has launched a new version of its web portal that consolidates tolling information and analytics into one location online.
July 14, 2016
Business
State’s trucks-only toll plan stymied for now
Rhode Island lawmakers ended their regular session June 25 without approving a plan to fund repair of the state’s deteriorating infrastructure by adding a truck-only user fee on about two dozen bridges.
June 30, 2015
Business
Toll roads trend in recent decade as new toll mileage well outpaces total system growth
Tolled Interstate mileage grew by about 17 percent in the 2003-2013 time frame, while total Interstate mileage grew by just over 2 percent.
April 9, 2015
Business
Foxx sends Obama highway bill to Congress, trucking groups unhappy with tolling measures
The Obama administration’s transportation funding plan has officially made its way to Congress, as Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx unveiled the four-year, $302 billion plan April 29. Trucking groups, however, disapprove of the bill and its allowance of tolling Interstates.
April 29, 2014
Channel 19
Secretary Foxx receptive to notion of tolling existing interstates
Here’s part of what he said: “We’ll consider finding ways to help when [tolling is] an option that states want to consider.”
April 29, 2014
Channel 19
Toll talk re-emerging in advance of highway bill
Today, it feels like we’re on more solid footing with not only a wider swathe of industry opinion but also among the general public, where tolls sentiment has generally trended dead-set against pricing existing interstates.
March 4, 2014
Business
N.C. House passes anti-tolling bill
The North Carolina House of Representatives have approved a measure that would prohibit tolling existing Interstate lanes.
May 22, 2013
Business
NY, Maine consider hefty toll hikes
New York is considering a 45 percent increase in commercial tolls. Maine will meet this month about tolls for truck drivers.
June 8, 2012
Channel 19
To toll or not to toll: In PA I-80 controversy’s wake, debate over road privatization re-emerges
When a Devon, Penn., lawyer representing big commercial construction contractors insists that “Nobody’s against this,” referring to tolling major interstates as a method of funding their upkeep and expansion, I suspect he’s not talked to anyone among the nation’s long-haul owner-operators and drivers. Opposition to tolling, in my experience, is near universal among the former, particularly, and […]
May 14, 2010
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