What's the matter, you drop out of 6th grade and can't read?
The money for these projects was collected for these projects out of GAS TAX. We already had the toll. Its been collected for 40 years.
I understand that the moneys COME from a gas tax. I don't understand why they GO to Alaska. The author seems incredulous that California gets more than twice as much money as Alaska... Golly, could that be because California has FIFTY TIMES the population of Alaska? Per capita, Alaska gets more than twenty times as much funding as California.
By the way, I grew up on Long Island. The bridge to Staten Island costs NINE DOLLARS, and serves hundreds of thousands of people per day.