7/29/10-An effort in the Senate Transportation Committee is intended to cut truckers a break on tolls along the turnpike.
Sponsored by Sen. Shirley Turner, D-Mercer, SR52 is a non-binding resolution that calls for tolls to be reduced by 50 percent for trucks on the roadway between midnight and 6 a.m.
Citing truck tolls along the turnpike that increased 100 percent in the early 1990s, Turner wrote in a statement attached to the legislation that truck traffic on local roads has increased dramatically.
Despite the increase in toll revenues, there are revenues lost from truckers who don’t use the roadway, she wrote. Concern about wear and tear, as well as safety on the affected roads makes it more cost effective to cut truck tolls in half “to encourage truckers to use the facility which was designed for such traffic.”
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