RIDOT undecided on how to pay for $38M truck-toll gantries

By WPRI

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – The R.I. Department of Transportation expects its new toll gantries will collect $45 million a year from trucks once they’re up and running. But first the agency has to figure out how to pay for the gantries themselves.

Construction of the new toll gantries – electronic overhead collection systems used instead of tollbooths – at 14 locations around the state is expected to cost $38 million, according to a Senate Fiscal Office analysis of RhodeWorks, the transportation-repair plan toll revenue will help support.

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