interstate tolling

The Federal Highway Administration's chief counsel James D Ray has sent a discouraging letter to Pennsylvania saying that they have made no decision on the application to toll I-80, but that other candidates for the limited tolling authority or 'slot' in federal law have been promised priority. These are various tolling programs under the Corridors of the Future (CoF) program.

The red white and blue interstate 540 signs on a new 11km (7 mile) section of I-540 in Raleigh are being hurriedly taken down this week and replaced in two segments by black and white 540 state route signs before the 2x3 lane expressway opens. The hurried sign changes are to avoid future entanglement in federal interstate tolling rules, says Kevin Lacy, an engineer at NCDOT.