U.S. truckers rally against more private toll roads
Source: Today's Trucking, 11/01/2006
The American Trucking Associations' Board of Directors is stepping up its strong opposition to the privatization or leasing of existing toll facilities to fund highway infrastructure projects.
At the 2006 Management Conference and Exhibition in Grapevine, Tex., ATA President and CEO Bill Graves called on government to abandon these financing techniques, which generate revenue "at great expense to the trucking industry and taxpayers and with potential negative impacts on highway safety, security and the motoring public."
....... New DOT secretary Mary Peters, a former administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, is considered an advocate of further tolling and privatization of highways and bridges.
....... ATA has established a 10-point policy on privatization for those cases where toll facilities might end up in the hands of the private sector.
Related item: ATA position on Tolls on the Interstate System