Opposition to tolling Interstate 95 continues to rise, with the Ashland Town Council and the Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization becoming the latest groups to join the growing chorus of voices against the project.
08-13-2012 The House of Representatives passed legislation last week by voice vote that would broadly authorize discount programs for residents living in close proximity to tolls.
08-06-2012 Congressman J. Randy Forbes (VA-04) last week expressed strong opposition to the Virginia Department of Transportation’s (VDOT) Interstate 95 tolling plan, saying it would discourage economic development and increase costs for area businesses.
07-30-2012 About 50 city and county leaders from Virginia gathered to brainstorm transportation funding issues.
06-11-2012 ASNHN urged the conference committee charged with working out the differences between the House and Senate transportation bills to maintain provisions that seek to limit the expansion of tolling and public-private partnerships (P3s).
06-04-2012 Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) says preventing the expansion of tolls in North Carolina is among her top legislative priorities.
05-21-2012 Plans to turn Interstate-70 in Missouri into a toll road appears to have hit a major roadblock in the state legislature.
04-30-2012 New Jersey trucking executive warned that rapidly increasing toll rates as well as the spread of tolls across the transportation system pose a significant threat to consumers and the trucking industry.
04-23-2012 In a letter to Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez, Rep. Ellmers said paying for I-95 construction through a highway tax like tolls would devastate small businesses along the I-95 corridor.
03-05-2012 If I-95 were to be rebuilt and converted to a toll road, taxpayers would pay about $30 billion over 40 years.
02-27-2012 NATSO last week urged Missouri lawmakers to oppose a proposal to toll Interstate 70 between St. Louis and Kansas City.
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