US422

Barry Seymour head of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission studying tolls on US422 says they'll be best to abandon the tolls plan if the state increases taxes for transportation in line with recommendations of Governor Tom Corbett's transport funding commission. With tax money from Harrisburg a needed modernization and widening of US422 plus rail transit will be fundable with state grants, Seymour says.

Estimates presented by local planners suggest about $1.1 billion of highway and transit improvements can be financed with tolls on US422, a radial route going northwest out of the Philadelphia area. The capital is to be split about two-thirds highway upgrades, one third for a commuter rail service.

Like many Democrats this election US Representative Christopher P Carney of the 10th District of Pennsylvania never talks about his party affiliation. And he says his top transportation priority is the Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway project, an upgrade to expressway standard of some 13 miles (21km) of US15 the main north-south highway of his district.

Montgomery County is leading toll revenue and engineering studies and public outreach for major rail and road improvements in the US422 corridor northwest of Philadelphia to be funded by collecting all-electronic tolls on the presently untolled highway.