toll rates

Maryland's Intercounty Connector (ICC or MD200) in the northern suburbs of Washington DC metro area will manage free flow with tolls that could vary between 10c/mile and 35c/mile (6c/km to 22c/km) for cars.

The Massachusetts Turnpike board last week deferred decisions on a budget for the next financial year amid fears that its deteriorating financial situation might cause its credit rating to be downgraded to junk bond status.

North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) announced its first toll rates - a base toll of 13.5c/mile (8.4c/km) for cars using transponders. The tolling on the Triangle Expressway in the western area of Raleigh is due to begin in December 2010.

Massachusetts officials are looking at a variety of measures to generate more funds for transport, local reports say. The Boston Globe reports the chairman of the legislature's joint transportation committee Senator Steven Baddour (Dem) as saying that "everything needs to be on the table".

US Congressman Frank R Wolf (Repub, N VA) wants the Virginia state government to toughen its law to make toll increases on the Dulles Greenway more difficult. And he wants the state's corporation commission (VSCC) which regulates the Greenway to delay a hearing on higher toll caps. Wolf known ideologically as a RINO (Republican-In-Name-Only) frequently takes up leftwing causes and as a federal politician has no jurisdiction over the Greenway which is purely a state road.