HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Editorial: … The price tag to repair the damage has been ballparked at $10 million. And tens of thousands of motorists will be inconvenienced while that work takes place…
The funding proposal sponsored by Transportation Committee Chairman John Rafferty R-Montgonery, is more aggressive and more expensive than the five-year, $1.8 billion proposal Corbett offered during his February budget address.
While lawmakers face a host of big-ticket items this budget season, none serves a more compelling public policy interest than well-maintained roads and bridges and a robust mass-transit system… (more)
Also from the Harrisburg Patriot News –
It is rated to carry general freight, building materials and liquids and gases, such as the diesel fuel that fed the super-heated fire that followed Thursday’s wreck.
The company had no reported accidents in the United States or Canada in the prior 24 months and had undergone 11 inspections during that time, according to the federal records.
It is listed as carrying $1 million of insurance. State officials have estimated the interchange repairs could cost $10 million or more.
This is what tort reform gets us – a massive fire-bomb on wheels required to only have $ 1 million of insurance. Thankfully no one was hurt and it does sound like the trucking company ran a good operation, but what if several people had died or were injured? How far is $1 million going to go with even a couple of injuries from an accident like this?