Lawmakers: eliminate Mass Pike tolls

We need to inject more funding into our transportation infrastructure instead of decling it to keep the adequate preservation of our streets and roads!

The Joint Committee on Transportation heard 19 bills Tuesday that aim to give commuters on the Massachusetts Turnpike a break by proposing a freeze on rate increases at the toll plazas, free access to seniors 70 years old and up, or even eliminating the tolls completely.

“Given the chronic underfunding of the transportation system and the looming threat of diminished federal support for transportation in the near future we feel that any move to reduce revenues dedicated to transportation would be imprudent at this time,” said Richard Parr, the policy and development director at A Better City, a transportation and land development group. [Full Article: 22News]