Romney

Plans to end tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike are excoriated in a lengthy report of a transport finance commission (MTFC) set up by the state legislature. Sub-titled "An unsustainable system" the report says the Romney administration and its predecessors have left a shocking financial legacy of high cost but skimped maintenance even while going deeper into debt to cover current costs - a tale of the Big Dig writ large in widespread mismanagement of the state's highways.