After federal rejection of Pennsylvania’s I-80 tolling plan, Rendell calls for special session to fill in $500 million gap.
From CAPITOLWIRE:–
Gov. Ed Rendell said the federal rejection of the state’s proposal to toll Interstate 80 impelled him to call a special session of the Legislature to fund transportation needs in the state.
The special session is needed, Rendell said, to at least fill a nearly $500 million transportation funding hole caused by the federal disapproval of the tolling plan that the state passed in 2007.
“We need to concentrate on this,” Rendell said, explaining why he called for a special session, which he hopes will start “soon.”
Rendell said the tolling plan was rejected because President Barack Obama’s U.S. Department of Transportation disagreed with Pennsylvania officials over the legality of the state’s proposal. Federal officials said that plan would have illegally funded projected unrelated to I-80 using money from the I-80 tolls. Click here to read a statement from those federal officials…
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