Missouri Lawmakers Consider Calls for I-70 Tolls
Missouri Department of Transportation Director Kevin Keith told lawmakers Tuesday that changes to the interstate, such as widening it to six lanes, could create construction jobs and make the state more economically competitive.
Keith said such improvements could cost as much as $4 billion. Private companies would finance the project up front and collect tolls on I-70 between Kansas City and St. Louis.
[link:http://www.komu.com/news/missouri-lawmakers-consider-calls-for-i-70-tolls/|
Bozita
(26,955 posts)But then, this is the Age of the TeaBaggers.
pstokely
(10,528 posts)The big out of state trucking companies don't pay for it. A toll may not be needed if they raised the already low gas taxes.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)Trucks cause most of the damage.
*Rhetorical question, I know the trucking industry hates taxes almost as much as the GOP.
pstokely
(10,528 posts)nt
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)heading north. Went from NC to RI this past summer, paid a ton of tolls. Roads weren't all that great. Rock cracked my windshield on the way in NY. I guess that's life now a days.
pstokely
(10,528 posts)Freight trains get priority on the Missouri River Runner
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)I am not sure right-of-way is so much the issue as the will to begin the project.
mattvermont
(646 posts)their carbon footprint. We would see hybrid 18-wheelers in 3 years and the rest in 2. Raise all interstate tolls by 1000%
and offer much of that revenue to local state deficit, and the rest to subsidize business and lower income commuters in the transition.