Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The Troubled Turnpike 

Should a corrupt agency be able to toll I-80?

By John LaPlante

Filed As:  Transportation

Pennsylvania, like most states, could benefit from a cash infusion to improve its roads.

Two leading contenders involve toll roads.

There's already the Pennsylvania turnpike. One option is to sell the turnpike--currently overseen by political operatives and rife with nepotism--to a private contractor, who would then invest millions of dollars in the turnpike, and wring out efficiencies.

The leading alternative, however, is to introduce tolls on Interstate 80, and turn over the operation of the new tollroad to the same corrupt, inefficient turnpike commission.

Turnpikelease.info, a project of the Commonwealth Foundation, offers a lot of information about how the Turnpike Commission needs to be outsourced--not allowed to toll I-80.

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