INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS * USA - LaHood to states: If you want tolls, add capacity

Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine -3 March 2011: -- The White House is willing to approve more state tolling projects, but only when new capacity is added to the highway system, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said this week... LaHood addressed the American Association of Highway and Transportation Officials, or AASHTO, on Wednesday, March 2. Joining him was U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-FL, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee... Funding the next six years of surface transportation programs is not going to come easy, and both men agree that innovative financing including tolls will be necessary... (Image from lavca.org: highway)