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Peters hammers tax-&-grant as "broken," calls for direct road pricing


US transport secretary Mary Peters in an interview with Traffic World lambasts proposals for enlarging the present federal tax-&-grant programs, pitching the case for its replacement by direct pricing of roads. Excerpts from the interview follow:
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US sec Mary Peters expresses strong support for Penn Pike lease concession


US secretary of transportation Mary Peters has expressed enthusiasm for the $12.8b Abertis/Citi proposal for a longterm lease concession of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It appears on Fast Lane", the official Blog of the Secretary: see http://fastlane.dot.gov/, scroll down to May 20:

Peters writes, and we reproduce it in full:

"Pennsylvania Receives Largest Ever Transportation Private Investment Bid
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