FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 9, 2011
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Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Statement Addressing Route 422 Tolling Rumors

HARRISBURG – State Senate Transportation Committee Chairman John C. Rafferty, Jr. (R-Montgomery) released the following statement today regarding recent news reports that Route 422 was being considered as a future toll road:

"There is no legislation pending in either the House or the Senate calling for the tolling of any specific roadways in Pennsylvania," Senator Rafferty said. "And any thoughts or considerations of implementing tolling on any specific roads in the state to generate transportation funding are wholly premature. As chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, I have no plans to move anything adding tolling to Route 422 or any state roadway. In fact, we are currently in a holding pattern until the Governor's Transportation Funding Advisory Committee (TFAC) makes it recommendations later this summer. Even after that report is delivered, the Committee's recommendations are just suggested courses of action, not proposals that would necessarily become law."

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