By The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
"Wisconsin faces many challenges in the years ahead, challenges that require thoughtful and sustainable solutions. One area often overlooked is our state's infrastructure. According to TRIP, a national transportation research group, poor and unsafe roads and bridges cost Wisconsin motorists a total of $6 billion per year, more than $2,000 per driver."
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By The News & Observer
In responding to Sen. Brent Jackson’s comment that the state should resurrect the specter of tolling on an existing interstate, Rep. Leo Daughtry was quoted as saying in the March 25 article “Lawmakers talk taxes, tolls and bathrooms” that “it is easier to pick the pocket of a Yankee than it is to pick cotton.”
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By WPLG Local 10
MIAMI - Drivers throughout South Florida have said no matter where their daily commute takes them, they feel they're spending more money, more often on tolls.
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By The Seattle Times
"...Smithson, a middle-school teacher in Glen Carbon, Ill., is somehow the latest to be sucked into a bureaucratic whirlpool from which apparently no American now is safe. I’m talking, of course, about our Good to Go tolling system."
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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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By The Providence Journal
Rhode Island must improve its economy. Our primary goal should be to build new businesses and create jobs. To address this concern, Gov. Gina Raimondo rightfully sought to invest in Rhode Island’s infrastructure.
Done well, this investment creates the framework for businesses to succeed and grow. While the governor’s RhodeWorks program has some commendable features, the burdensome and inefficient tolls that it seeks to impose will divert trucks around our state, onto back roads, and will increase shipping costs for Rhode Island companies.
By O'Dwyer's
"An increase in the national tax gas was backed in an editorial in the Jan. 16 New York Times. But it said lawmakers are “fearful” of such a move “ahead of an election.” States levy their own gas taxes—42 cents in New York, 50 cents in Pennsylvania, and 14 cents in New Jersey, as examples."
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The Providence Journal
Patrick Anderson, January 19, 2016
The nearest gantry would be more than a dozen miles from its borders, but Narragansett on Tuesday became the first Rhode Island community to consider a formal resolution opposing Governor Raimondo's truck toll proposal.
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