massachusettts

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is keen to move quickly to get a "pilot" project for all-electronic tolling (AET) running on the Turnpike. In a radio interview this week he mentioned the possibility of "tests" of all-electronic tolling at the Turnpike's interchange with MA128 (I-95) and also on the Tobin Bridge.

The state governor, house speaker and senate president today released a joint statement calling on the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board of directors to defer the March 29 toll increase they voted at their last meeting. This is a U-turn by the Governor Deval Patrick.

Massachusetts new transport secretary and turnpike chairman James Aloisi is proposing an interim increase in the state's gasoline and diesel taxes to be phased out in favor of a road use charge (RUC) by 2014, according to the Associated Press.