toll diversion

There's a major fight in Ohio over legislation to earmark revenues of the Ohio Turnpike to support state borrowing for spending programs that supposedly would create jobs. Dem Gov Ted Strickland initiated the plan earlier this month under which the Turnpike would provide $20m a year to the state to pay interest on debt for a make-work program of spending.
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Diversion from the tollroad to the parallel free road is an issue in southwest Maine, as in other places. In Maine they've just studied it again. HNTB ran surveys for the Turnpike on the nearby free roads and at the York toll plaza to establish how many people are taking the free road to avoid the toll.
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