{"id":2283,"date":"2007-07-26T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/07\/the-i-80-tolls-mess.html"},"modified":"2007-07-26T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T16:15:00","slug":"the-i-80-tolls-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/07\/the-i-80-tolls-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"The I-80 tolls mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/uploaded_images\/i-80tiny-717980.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/uploaded_images\/i-80tiny-717975.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>There is a lot of backlash to the legislation to add tolls to Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li type=\"square\">The legislators in and around State College suddenly went NIMBY voted against the plan because it had the possibility of tolls in their area.\n<li type=\"square\">This week in the U.S. House, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Rep. John Peterson<\/span>, R-Pleasantville, and <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Rep. Phil English<\/span>, R-Erie added an amendment to the transportation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/news\/local\/story\/161326.html\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">bill prohibiting the use of federal funds<\/span><\/a> (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">CDT<\/span>) for the conversion. That may not make a difference because there are other ways to funds toll booth construction, but it sends a message.\n<li type=\"square\">Proponents of the toll plan like <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Ed Rendell<\/span>, the Democratic governor from Philadelphia, are again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/07207\/804588-147.stm\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">threatening to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike<\/span><\/a> (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Post-Gazette<\/span>). The whole thing has the typical Pennsylvania vs. Philadelphia connotations (sound familiar Virginia residents?) because some of the funding from tolls would go to mass transit. Call it a hunch, but Philadelphia (and probably Pittsburgh too) area taxpayers are paying more than their share already, so I don&#8217;t feel too bad for the rest of the Commonwealth on this one.<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, this mess could have probably avoided if there had been leadership (I&#8217;m looking in your direction, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Bud Shuster<\/span>) and a better run PennDOT, but hindsight is 20-20 and those two things seem impossible anyway. In the real world, Pennsylvania should have passed an increase in the gas tax instead of cynically trying to pass the burden of funding strictly onto out-of-state travelers. If the Federal Highway Administration says no to I-80 tolls, which it hopefully will on general principle, Pennsylvania might have to a gas tax anyway. As much I would enjoy the irony of Pennsylvania as &#8220;The Tollbooth State&#8221;, I would rather a precedent for tolling interstates built with federal highway trust fund money not be set.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/graphics\/technorati.gif\" border=\"0\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Interstate80\" rel=\"tag\">Interstate 80<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/tolls\" rel=\"tag\">tolls<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Pennsylvania\" rel=\"tag\">Pennsylvania<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of backlash to the legislation to add tolls to Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania. The legislators in and around State College suddenly went NIMBY voted against the plan because it had the possibility of tolls in their area. This week in the U.S. House, Rep. 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