Morning Call: Feds put up roadblock to I-80 tolls
September 12th, 2008HARRISBURG – Federal highway regulators on Thursday shot down Pennsylvania‘s application to turn Interstate 80 into a toll road, dealing a serious blow to the state’s efforts to raise billions of dollars for badly needed highway repairs and cash-strapped mass transit agencies.
After months of review, officials at the Federal Highway Administration rejected the state’s application to convert the 310-mile highway into a toll road because it doesn’t meet the technical requirements of a federal pilot program authorizing such tolls.
