ALTOONA MIRROR Editorial: In an effort to create more transportation funding, the General Assembly passed and Gov. Ed Rendell signed Act 44 of 2007, which required annual payments – originally envisioned to be nearly $1 billion – from the commission to the state…
But when the federal government balked on tolling I-80, that part of Act 44 vanished, as did about half of the annual payment that was supposed to go to the state.
PA Independent reports [Auditor General Jack Wagner] told a joint hearing of the House and Senate transportation committees that the Pennsylvania Turnpike likely will become the nation’s most expensive toll road when the tolls increase again in January.… (more)
