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1 posted on 03/13/2010 7:33:32 AM PST by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green
Without the money from I-80 tolls, the state would have about $450 million less annually for highways, bridges, and mass transit. About $120 million of that was to go to SEPTA.

Seems like the obvious step is to raise SEPTA tolls by $120 million instead of having a cross-country trucker subsidize commuter fares in Philly.

2 posted on 03/13/2010 7:37:29 AM PST by dirtboy
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So 350 million from the tolls will go for transportation

350 million originally going for transportation will now go for something else

No tolls1


3 posted on 03/13/2010 7:37:36 AM PST by GreaterSwiss
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The taxes never stop coming. Philly’s mayor Nutter is proposing a 2 cent per ounce tax on soda. Next is the air we breathe!


4 posted on 03/13/2010 7:39:04 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Willie Green
For those that do not know, I-80 runs across the upper third of the state.

The tolls would go to mass transit projects in Philly and Pittsburgh, neither of which comes within 100 miles of I-80.

5 posted on 03/13/2010 7:39:09 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Willie Green
As a citizen of Williamsport, this affects our area greatly. We have beaten Rendell twice already, but now with Obama in office, the chances of the DOT approving the tolls is higher.

Elections have consequences, folks! Stop the bull$&it that there is no difference between Dems and Republicans!

7 posted on 03/13/2010 7:41:21 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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Residents of the region say I-80 tolls would cripple the local economy and push heavy trucks onto local roads.

Don't know about the local economy but tolls will definitely screw up surface traffic along state highways that parallel the interstate. It happens here in Ohio-- evey time they raise the turnpike tolls, local traffic gets worse. Big semis barreling down country roads. Great.

9 posted on 03/13/2010 7:42:37 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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One thing I hate about these long distance toll roads is the toll plaza rest areas. The exits are few and far between and if you want to stop and get gas and something to eat, you have to use a toll plaza or pay extra tolls to get on and off the highway. The toll plazas are overpriced with limited choices and the McDonalds doesn’t accept coupons. Their prices were significantly higher than a non-toll plaza McDonalds.


17 posted on 03/13/2010 9:00:34 AM PST by sportutegrl (VETO PROOF MAJORITY IN 2010)
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To: Willie Green

The tolls are unpopular along most of the I-80 route in Pennsylvania because (1) most of that route is very rural and while it does serve east and west bound interstate travel and truck shipping, it also provides a major route between the rural towns nearest to it, and (2) the main purpose of the tolls IS NOT for I-80 and those living nearest to it, but for “mass transit” systems in the populous eastern edge of the state.

Now then, if Pennsylvania sold it’s stretch of I-80 to a private interest, a private interest who established tolls along it, then Pennsylvania could designate the tax revenue it got from that private company however it wanted to.

The biggest losers in either case are likely to be the residents of the rural towns along I-80, at least those who have come to depend on it, depend on it without tolls.


19 posted on 03/13/2010 10:46:01 AM PST by Wuli
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21 posted on 03/13/2010 2:12:12 PM PST by Tribune7 (Only stupid, racists people support Obama.)
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