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By The Providence Journal

Patrick Anderson, Jennifer Bogdan, Katherine Gregg; January 6, 2016

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A toll-financed Rhode Island bridge repair program moved closer to reality Tuesday as Governor Raimondo relented to General Assembly leaders' demands to disclose the locations for proposed toll gantries, releasing them minutes after the House and Senate convened their first sessions of 2016.

The Interstate System Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program will not expand which states are allowed to toll existing interstates. However, the program will not go away anytime soon with the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act’s latest revisions.

By Commercial Carrier Journal - Diane Winslett

An anti-tolling group that includes major trucking industry lobbyists  sent letters this week to the 40 lawmakers tasked with producing the final version of a long-term highway bill to urge them to opt for the House’s Interstate tolling language over the Senate’s.

By Rubber & Plastics News - Miles Moore

WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives voted 363-64 on Nov. 5 to approve a bipartisan six-year bill providing $325 billion for highway, bridge and other surface transportation projects.

The bill includes more than 1,000 pages of amendments from a Senate surface transportation bill that passed last July, as well as a number of other amendments introduced on the House floor.

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By Fleet News Daily

As the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the House of Representatives prepares to markup their multi-year highway funding bill today, the Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates (ATFI) is throwing its weight behind measures that would protect interstates from new tolls.

The anti-tolling group has sent a letter to the Committee thanking them for listening to their constituents’ vocal opposition and staving off attempts by tolling lobbyists to expand the Interstate System Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program (ISRRPP).

By Overdrive Magazine - Todd Dills

The U.S. Congress’ House of Representatives’ long-term highway bill draft introduced last week followed the Senate’s “DRIVE Act” draft legislation, introduced this summer, in making it somewhat easier for states to toll existing interstates as an alternative to traditional funding mechanisms for highway expansion and maintenance.

By Fleet News Daily

A group that is decidedly opposed to interstate tolling, the Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates (ATFI), has applauded the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for proposing a multi-year highway funding bill, the “Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015,” before the October 29 expiration of surface transportation programs across the nation.

By Land Line Magazine

The Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates, which includes trucking members, is calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to flat-out reject a proposal that would expand states’ rights to toll interstate highways.

The alliance says to look no further than an existing but unpopular pilot program that allows a small number of toll-free interstates to be converted into toll roads.

By Overdrive Magazine

The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works committee wants to expand the pilot program for interstate highway tolls. The committee’s proposed $275 billion highway bill would make it easier for states to apply for approval to install tolling on existing roads.

This would be done through the Interstate Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program, which has worked with six states to try to establish polls. All failed after loud public protests. Here are some of the problems: